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say it: LOHTH-suhm
loathsome is an adjective meaning "causing or able to cause nausea". It is pronounced /ˈloʊðsəm/ — LOHTH-suhm. It carries 2 recorded senses.
causing or able to cause nausea
“a nauseating smell”
“nauseous offal”
“a sickening stench”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for loathsome come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.