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Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part. Full loth were him to curse for his tithes. Chaucer . Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content. Shak.

To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for. Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread. Cowley.

One who loathes.

Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. "Loathful eyes." Spenser.

e disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation. The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races. Macaulay.

With loathing.

Loathsomeness. [Obs.]

Loathsome. [Obs.] " Loathly mouth." Spenser.

Unwillingness; reluctance. A general silence and loathness to speak. Bacon.

Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay. -- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.

Loathsome. [Obs.] Spenser.

th horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

horrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

Want of appetite; loathing of food.

Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. Pope.