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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. 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).
  2. adj. Archaic Exposed to harm, injury, or evil: "The town ... now lies obnoxious to its foes” ( John Bunyan).
  3. adj. Archaic Deserving of or liable to censure.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Liable: subject; exposed, as to harm, injury, or punishment: generally with to: as, obnoxious to blame or to criticism.
  2. Justly liable to punishment; hence, guilty; reprehensible; censurable.
  3. Offensive; odious; hateful.
  4. In law, vulnerable; amenable: with to: as, an indefinite allegation in pleading is obnoxious to a motion, but not generally to a demurrer.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Very annoying, offensive, odious or contemptible.
  2. adj. exposed to harm or injury.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
  2. adj. Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.
  3. adj. Very offensive; odious; hateful.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. causing disapproval or protest

Etymologies

  1. Latin obnoxiōsus, subordinate, from obnoxius, subject, liable : ob-, to; see ob- + noxa, injury; see nek-1 in Indo-European roots.

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