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Lousiness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. State or property of being lousy.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The state or quality of being lousy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state of being lousy or infested with lice.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching

n. the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions

Word Usage

"Trees (especially fruit-bearers) are infested with the measels, by being burned and scorched with the sun in great droughts: To this commonly succeeds lousiness, which is cur’d by boring an hole into the principal root, and pouring in a quantity of brandy, stopping the orifice up with"

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

offensiveness distastefulness odiousness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

pediculosis phthiriasis

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

drowsiness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

monobloc overlordship storytellers effluence ancestress