[syn: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Noisome \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.
[1913 Webster]
2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
"Foul breath is noisome." --Shak.
[1913 Webster] -- Noi"some*ly, adv. -- Noi"some*ness,
n.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
noisome
adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
"nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn:
nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy,
loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]
2: offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled
really funky" [syn: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-
smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-
scented]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
186 Moby Thesaurus words for "noisome":
abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad for,
bad-smelling, baleful, baneful, barfy, base, beastly,
below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brackish, brutal,
cloying, contaminated, contemptible, corroding, corrosive,
corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, crude, damaging, deadly,
deleterious, deplorable, despicable, detestable, detrimental, dire,
dirty, disadvantageous, disgusting, disserviceable, distressing,
dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fecal, fetid, filthy,
flagrant, forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky,
fusty, gamy, graveolent, grievous, gross, harmful, hateful,
heinous, high, horrible, horrid, hurtful, icky, ignoble,
ill-smelling, infamous, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary,
lamentable, lethal, loathsome, lousy, maggoty, malefic, malevolent,
malign, malignant, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic,
mildewed, mildewy, mischievous, moldy, monstrous, morbific, musty,
nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous,
notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious,
odorous, offensive, olid, ominous, outrageous, overripe,
pathogenic, peccant, pernicious, pestiferous, pitiable, pitiful,
poisonous, polluted, prejudicial, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty,
reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent,
reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad,
scandalous, scatheful, schlock, scurvy, septic, shabby, shameful,
shocking, shoddy, sickening, sickly, smellful, smelling, smelly,
sordid, spoiled, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy,
sulfurous, tainted, terrible, too bad, toxic, unclean, unhealthful,
unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesome, venenate,
veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, vile, villainous,
virulent, vomity, weevily, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched,
yucky