Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Very annoying or objectionable; offensive or odious: "I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution” ( Ulysses S. Grant).
- adj. Archaic Exposed to harm, injury, or evil: "The town ... now lies obnoxious to its foes” ( John Bunyan).
- adj. Archaic Deserving of or liable to censure.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Liable: subject; exposed, as to harm, injury, or punishment: generally with to: as, obnoxious to blame or to criticism.
- Justly liable to punishment; hence, guilty; reprehensible; censurable.
- Offensive; odious; hateful.
- In law, vulnerable; amenable: with to: as, an indefinite allegation in pleading is obnoxious to a motion, but not generally to a demurrer.
Wiktionary
- adj. Very annoying, offensive, odious or contemptible.
- adj. exposed to harm or injury.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
- adj. Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.
- adj. Very offensive; odious; hateful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. causing disapproval or protest
Etymologies
- Latin obnoxiōsus, subordinate, from obnoxius, subject, liable : ob-, to; see ob- + noxa, injury; see nek-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“HUFFTINGTON: Well, the greatest fears have to do with the voices in our heads, what I call the obnoxious roommate living in our head, putting us down every day.”
“Ratko Mladic defiantly refused on Friday to enter pleas to what he called "obnoxious" allegations that as the Serb military chief during the Bosnian war he orchestrated the worst atrocities of a conflict that claimed 100,000 lives.”
“Mladic tells court does not want to enter pleas Ratko Mladic defiantly refused on Friday to enter pleas to what he called "obnoxious" allegations that as the Serb military chief during the Bosnian war he orchestrated the worst atrocities of a conflict that claimed 100,000 lives.”
“Although Mr. Isaacson is not analytical about his subject's volatile personality the word "obnoxious" figures in the book frequently, he raises the question of whether feelings of abandonment in childhood made him fanatically controlling and manipulative as an adult.”
“I suppose in Britain being obnoxious is still against the law, unlike the US. But then, they started the whole politeness thing with afternoon tea.”
“I suppose in Britain being obnoxious is still against the law, unlike the US.”
“No, the best way to make PWCs less obnoxious is to put about a teaspoon of beach sand under the sparkplug when the operator returns to the beach for a joint and more beer.”
“All these years of decay and degeneration finally culminated to a terrible end when Francis Hope became bankrupt by engaging in obnoxious activities such as gambling and his family is said to have died from extreme poverty.”
“Sometimes I even promoted the gay image so that certain obnoxious males would leave me alone.”
“Before she goes to world competitions she gets wired and she gets plain obnoxious," she says.”
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to; toward; before; opposed to; against; upon; over
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