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–adjective

1.	offensive or disgusting, as an odor.

2.	harmful or injurious to health; noxious.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME noy (aph. var. of annoy) + -some¹

]

—Related forms

noi·some·ly, adverb

noi·some·ness, noun

—Synonyms 1. fetid, putrid, rotten, stinking, mephitic.

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adj.

Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul: a noisome odor.
Harmful or dangerous: noisome fumes.

[Middle English noiesom : noie, harm (short for anoi, annoyance, from Old French, from anoier, to annoy; see annoy) + -som, adj. suff.; see -some¹.]

noi'some·ly adv., noi'some·ness n.

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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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adjective
1.	causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating]
2.	offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky" [syn: fetid]

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An*noy"\, n. [OE. anoi, anui, OF. anoi, anui, enui, fr. L. in odio hatred (esse alicui in odio, Cic.). See Ennui, Odium, Noisome, Noy.] A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy.

Worse than Tantalus' is her annoy. --Shak.

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Noi"some\, a. [For noysome, fr. noy for annoy. See Annoy.]

1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome pestilence." --Ps. xci. 3.

2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul breath is noisome." --Shak. -- Noi"some*ly, adv. -- Noi"some*ness, n.

Syn: Noxious; unwholesome; insalubrious; mischievous; destructive.

Usage: Noisome, Noxious. These words have to a great extent been interchanged; but there is a tendency to make a distinction between them, applying noxious to things that inflict evil directly; as, a noxious plant, noxious practices, etc., and noisome to things that operate with a remoter influence; as, noisome vapors, a noisome pestilence, etc. Noisome has the additional sense of disqusting. A garden may be free from noxious weeds or animals; but, if recently covered with manure, it may be filled with a noisome smell.

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Noi"some\, a. [For noysome, fr. noy for annoy. See Annoy.]

1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome pestilence." --Ps. xci. 3.

2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul breath is noisome." --Shak. -- Noi"some*ly, adv. -- Noi"some*ness, n.

Syn: Noxious; unwholesome; insalubrious; mischievous; destructive.

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Nox"ious\, a. [L. noxius, fr. noxa harm; akin to nocere to harm, hurt. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy.]

1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.

Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. --Swift.

2. Guilty; criminal. [R.]

Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. --Abp. Bramhall.

Syn: Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive; pernicious; mischievous; corrupting; baneful; unwholesome; insalubrious. See Noisome. -- Nox"ious*ly, adv. -- Nox"ious*ness, n.

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O"di*um\, n. [L., fr. odi I hate. Gr. Annoy, Noisome.]

1. Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.

2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.

She threw the odium of the fact on me. --Dryden.

Odium theologicum[L.], the enmity peculiar to contending theologians.

Syn: Hatred; abhorrence; detestation; antipathy.

Usage: Odium, Hatred. We exercise hatred; we endure odium. The former has an active sense, the latter a passive one. We speak of having a hatred for a man, but not of having an odium toward him. A tyrant incurs odium. The odium of an offense may sometimes fall unjustly upon one who is innocent.

I wish I had a cause to seek him there, To oppose his hatred fully. --Shak.

You have . . . dexterously thrown some of the odium of your polity upon that middle class which you despise. --Beaconsfield.

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