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loathsome

adj
/ˈləʊð.səm/UK/ˈloʊð.səm/US

Etymology

From Middle English lothsum, from Old English *lāþsum, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþasam, equivalent to loath + -some. Cognate with Middle Low German lêtsam (“arduous”), German leidsam (“sad, sorry”).

  1. inherited from *laiþasam✻
  2. inherited from *lāþsum✻
  3. inherited from lothsum

Definitions

  1. Highly offensive

    Highly offensive; abominable, sickening.

    • Come on my Lords the better foot before, / Straight vvill I bring you to the lothſome pit, / VVhere I eſpied the Panther faſt a ſleepe.
    • Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at loathsome. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01loathsome02abominable03hateful04hatred05aversion06turning07foul

A definitional loop anchored at loathsome. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at loathsome

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA