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Webster 1913 Edition
Noisome
1.
Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive;
“Noisome pestilence.” as,
. noisome
effluviaPs. xci. 3.
2.
Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
“Foul breath is noisome.” Shak.
Noi′some-ly
, adv.
Noi′some-ness
, Noun.
Syn. – Noxious; unwholesome; insalubrious; mischievous; destructive.
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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. Webster 1828 Edition
Noisome
NOISOME
,Adj.
1.
Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as noisome winds; noisome effluvia or miasmata; noisome pestilence.2.
Noxious; injurious.3.
Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.Foul breath is noisome.