loathful

[lohth-fuhl]

adjective

1. Scot.,  bashful; reluctant.

2. hateful; loathsome.

Other Word Forms

• unloathful adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of loathful¹

First recorded in 1400–50, loathful is from the late Middle English word lothfull. See loath, -ful

Example Sentences

Then something cold, slimy, horrible, ran over his face, and the loathful thrill he felt shocked him into reality.

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The path was hidden by the thorny briars; The golden haunts, burned by the midday sun; An earthquake brought the wonder palace low; And now amidst the ruins and ashes, I Am left alone and palsy-stricken; snakes And lizards, pains and hatreds dwell now here In constant loathful brotherhood with me.

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The son his granddam found to him most loathful; heads she had nine hundred.

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Antonym: immaturity. maudlin, a. over-emotional, tearful; tipsy, fuddled, intoxicated. maul, v. pound, pommel, beat, club, cudgel. maul, n. beetle, mall. mauling, n. pounding, beating, clubbing, cudgelling. maw, n. stomach; craw, crop. mawkish, a. nauseous, sickening, loathful, disgusting; squeamish, fastidious. maxim, n. axiom, adage, proverb, aphorism, apothegm, saw, precept. maybe, adv. perhaps, possibly, peradventure, haply.

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Rather than leave you we should prefer the bloody and loathful slaughter-house, and the rocking of the cart on which we are carried thither with our legs tied and our flanks and cheeks on the boards.

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