obnoxious
Adjective Satellite
- causing disapproval or protest
Adj
- Extremely offensive or unpleasant; very annoying, contemptible, or odious.
- Unjustly disagreeable, argumentative or objectionable; brazenly rude.
- Exposed or vulnerable to something, especially harm or injury.
- Causing harm or injury; harmful, hurtful, injurious.
- Deserving of blame or punishment; blameworthy, guilty.
- Under the authority or power of someone; subject, subordinate; hence, deferential, submissive, subservient.
- Followed by to: likely to do something.
Examples
- He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.
- Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*h₁epi
Learned borrowing from Latin obnoxiōsus (“subject to someone, under someone’s authority”) + English -ous (suffix denoting the presence of a quality in any degree, typically an abundance). Obnoxiōsus is derived from obnoxius (“guilty, punishable; subject to someone, under someone’s authority”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly; prone to’, forming adjectives from nouns).
Synonyms
objectionable, abhorrant, abhorrent, aggravating, aggy, annoying, bad, bothersome, chagrining, disgusting, distasteful, douchetastic, douchey, foul, fulsome, gittish, grim, gro, grody, gross, grotty, harsh, honery, irksome, irritating, loathsome, munted, nasty, nauseous, obnoxious, offensive, pesky, plaguy, reprehensible, repulsive, revolting, scabrous, sickening, strident, troublesome, twattish, unpleasant, vexatious
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 18
obnoxious: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordobnoxious: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
obnoxious: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary