noisome

Meaning

1. Morally hurtful or noxious.
2. Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious.
3. Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous, especially having an undesirable smell.

Synonyms

stinking

fetid

nauseous

loathsome

foetid

foul-smelling

foul

smelly

funky

insalubrious

offensive

harmful

disagreeable

unwholesome

vile

nauseating

sickening

ill-scented

putrid

nasty

unpleasant

objectionable

noxious

disgusting

rank

queasy

unhealthful

malign

malodorous

nauseously

obnoxious

odious

piggish

poisonous

pokey

rancid

repellent

repugnant

repulsive

revolting

sordid

stench

stuffy

tainted

unappealing

uncomfortable

uncongenial

ungracious

unhealthy

unpalatable

unpleasing

unrelenting

unsanitary

unsatisfactory

unsavory

wretched

bad-smelling

stinky

wlatsome

olid

odiferous

abhorrent

liftin

abominable

awful

beastly

brackish

deleterious

detestable

dicey

diseased

dislikable

displeasing

distasteful

execrable

frowsty

frowsy

fuggy

fusty

grotty

hideous

hurtful

ill-favoured

injurious

insanitary

loath

loathly

lousy

maleficent

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈnɔɪ.səm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: noysom

Cognate with French: ennuyer

In summary

From Middle English noysom; equivalent to noy + -some (short for annoy, from an(n)oien, enoien from Anglo-Norman anuier, from Old French enuier (French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiare (“to make hateful”), from in- (intensive prefix) + odium (“hate”)).