obnoxious

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /əbˈnɒkʃəs/
• (America) IPA: /əbˈnɑkʃəs/

Adjective

obnoxious

1. Extremely unpleasant or offensive; very annoying, odious or contemptible.

   He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.

   Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.

2. (archaic) Exposing to harm or injury.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, page 26,

     To begin then with his Experiment of the burning Wood, it seems to me to be obnoxious to not a few considerable Exceptions.

Synonyms

• • annoying
  • unpleasant

Related terms

• noxious
• nocent
• innocent

Translations

• French: odieux, désagréable, exécrable
• German: widerlich, widerwärtig, unerträglich, unausstehlich, abscheulich, anstößig
• Italian: odioso, detestabile, ripugnante
• Portuguese: insuportável, desagradável, obnóxio
• Russian: отврати́тельный
• Spanish: desagradable, detestable, odioso

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