noisome
/icons/point.icon MALODOROUS, STINKING, FETID, NOISOME, PUTRID, RANK, FUSTY, MUSTY mean bad-smelling.
MALODOROUS may range from the unpleasant to the strongly offensive.
e.g. malodorous fertilizers
STINKING and FETID suggest the foul or disgusting.
e.g. prisoners were held in stinking cells the fetid odor of skunk cabbage
NOISOME adds a suggestion of being harmful or unwholesome as well as offensive.
e.g. a stagnant, noisome sewer
PUTRID implies particularly the sickening odor of decaying organic matter.
e.g. the putrid smell of rotting fish
RANK suggests a strong unpleasant smell.
e.g. rank cigar smoke
FUSTY and MUSTY suggest lack of fresh air and sunlight, FUSTY also implying prolonged uncleanliness, MUSTY stressing the effects of dampness, mildew, or age.
e.g. a fusty attic the musty odor of a damp cellar
adjective literary
having an extremely offensive smell:
｟文｠ 〖通例名詞の前で〗不快な, 嫌な; 有害な, 有毒な(noxious)
e.g. noisome vapors from the smoldering waste.
disagreeable; unpleasant:
e.g. noisome scandals.
DERIVATIVES
noisomeness noun
USAGE
Noisome means ‘bad-smelling.’ It has no relation to the word noise; it is related to the word annoy.
ORIGIN
late Middle English: from obsolete noy (shortened form of annoy) + -some1.