adjective
- having an extremely offensive smell
- harmful or unwholesome
Usage: formal
Examples
- The noisome fumes from the chemical plant made residents sick.
- We had to leave the noisome basement immediately.
- The garbage dump produced a noisome odor that carried for miles.
- Noisome vapors rose from the swamp.
- The old fish market was filled with noisome smells.
- Workers wore masks to protect themselves from noisome gases.