noisome

Meaning

Adjective

• Morally hurtful or noxious.
• Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious.
• Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous, especially having an undesirable smell.

Origin

• From Middle English noysom; equivalent to noy + -some (short for annoy, from annoien, enoien from Anglo-Norman anuier, from Old French enuier (French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiare ("to make hateful"), from in- + odium).