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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Loathsome \Loath"some\, adjective Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting; as, a loathsome disease.
The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. --Macaulay. -- {Loath"some*ly}. adverb -- {Loath"some*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
loathsome
adjective
1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: {nauseating}, {nauseous}, {noisome}, {offensive}, {sickening}, {vile}]
2: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: {disgusting}, {disgustful}, {distasteful}, {foul}, {loathly}, {repellent}, {repellant}, {repelling}, {revolting}, {skanky}, {wicked}, {yucky}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "loathsome": abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, crude, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, grievous, grisly, gross, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, infamous, invidious, lamentable, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, repelling, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sordid, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched
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