Question

What does loathsome mean as it is used in the following lines from Act IV, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet?
Juliet: Or, if I live, is it not very like The horrible conceit of death and night, Together with the terror of this place,-As in a vault, an ancient receptacle, Where, for this many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are pack'd;
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, At some hours in the night spirits resort,--Alack, alack, it is not like that I,
So early waking,--what with loathsome smells.-And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,-That living mortals, hearing them, run mad;
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Answer 1

loathsome means horrible in this context. It refers to something that is disgusting or repulsive. In this passage, Juliet is describing the vault where she is to be laid to rest, and she is expressing her fear of the horrible and disgusting surroundings.