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1.
offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
2.
harmful or injurious to health; noxious.
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Noisome
is a GRE word you need to know.
So is hyperbole. Does it mean:
| to feel sorrow over or regret bitterly; to wish that something had never taken place |
| extravagant exaggeration |
Example Sentences
- But for all the noisome details, this is not a cynical novel.
- He does not worry about a few thousand noisome people in the streets.
- French was so appalled by the noisome state of the latrines that he asked the ashram secretary whose job it was to clean them.
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Word Origin & History
noisome
1382, "harmful, noxious," from noye "harm, misfortune," shortened form of anoi "annoyance" (from O.Fr. anoier, see annoy) + -some. Meaning "bad-smelling" first recorded 1577.
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