Definition of obnoxious in English:

obnoxious

adjective əbˈnɒkʃəsəbˈnɑkʃəs

Extremely unpleasant.
极令人不快的；令人厌恶的；可憎的
obnoxious odours
he found her son somewhat obnoxious
Example sentencesExamples
- Like a nasty fungus or a obnoxious flatmate, the government will expand to fill any available space.
- I find it obnoxious and frightening to see drunks in bars and on the streets.
- We have, in this country, a generation of obnoxious, unruly, disrespectful louts.
- More than just unpleasant, the obnoxious smell was stifling and suffocating.
- Returning to her native city from Asia, she was driven home by a rude, obnoxious and deceitful driver.
- I could have sworn this obnoxious clause had been dropped, after widespread criticism.
- It is incredibly difficult to find a high school student who isn't obnoxious.
- The water was a shade of obnoxious blue that gave the sky a run for its money.
- The smell of cigarettes can be rather obnoxious, even in the street.
- Last night I turned into one of those obnoxious young things on a tour, just like I vowed never to be.
- It has become bigger and more obnoxious than the people and events themselves.
- A decent living politician is one who is not actively corrupt, rude, obnoxious, vile or idiotic.
- I assume he was not aware of the fact that he was in a church and being extremely obnoxious.
- I had to call each of my clerks into my office one at a time and explain how what I did actually made the obnoxious guy feel worse.
- I started with obnoxious colours, brown and red mainly, and worked from there.
- His is biased, obnoxious, and arrogant but we knew that about him before the book came out.
- I picked up the fake gun and held in a particularly obnoxious woman's face.
- Sadly the bottom line is that she spends a lot of money with us and by virtue of that we have to accept her obnoxious visits.
- I had a faint hope that the heat would remove that obnoxious weed ragwort from the roadsides of Cumbria.
- Its puerile response to grave matters would seem obnoxious if it did not yield such irresistible jokes.
Synonyms
disagreeable, irksome, troublesome, annoying, irritating, vexatious, displeasing, uncomfortable, distressing, nasty, horrible, appalling, terrible, awful, dreadful, hateful, detestable, miserable, abominable, execrable, odious, invidious, objectionable, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, revolting, disgusting, distasteful, nauseating, unsavoury, unpalatable, ugly
unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty, distasteful, offensive, objectionable, unsavoury, unpalatable, dislikeable, off-putting, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, revolting, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, disgusting, odious, vile, foul, abhorrent, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, poisonous, noxious, obscene, base, hideous, scabrous

Derivatives

obnoxiously

adverb əbˈnɒkʃəsliəbˈnɑkʃəsli

The ruling class is obnoxiously greedy, despoiling our planet and exploiting the people on it with a few bare restraints provided by popular pressure over the last century.
Example sentencesExamples
- The reviews have been so obnoxiously positive, that, as a writer with an outlet, I felt there was a need to offer another opinion.
- The authentic memories are of April hatefully attacking her mother and siblings, behaving obnoxiously and threatening the peace and happiness of them all.
- Josh is obnoxiously ambitious, but he's so plagued with chronic insecurity and low self-esteem it's virtually impossible to hate him.
- Try not to get obnoxiously and tactlessly drunk.

obnoxiousness

noun əbˈnɒkʃəsnəsəbˈnɑkʃəsnəs

I am outraged at the degree of obnoxiousness with which they are treating shareholders.
Example sentencesExamples
- Sometimes you just have to embrace your inner obnoxiousness in order to combat someone else's.
- There's no doubt that email can bring out the abusiveness and obnoxiousness in some people, but it's still useful to know how people feel.
- As we have no TV, we've been continually targeted by the TV Licensing Authority with a series of letters of increasing obnoxiousness.
- There's general rudeness and then there is obnoxiousness.

Origin

Late 16th century (in the sense 'vulnerable to harm'): from Latin obnoxiosus, from obnoxius 'exposed to harm', from ob- 'towards' + noxa 'harm'. The current sense, influenced by noxious, dates from the late 17th century.

innocent from Middle English:
Literally meaning ‘not harming’, innocent goes back to Latin in- ‘not’ and nocere ‘to hurt, injure’, which also lies behind nuisance (Late Middle English), noxious (Late Middle English) ‘harmful’, its opposite innocuous (late 16th century), and obnoxious (late 16th century).

Rhymes

noxious

Definition of obnoxious in US English:

obnoxious

adjectiveəbˈnɑkʃəsəbˈnäkSHəs

Extremely unpleasant.
极令人不快的；令人厌恶的；可憎的
obnoxious odors
he found her son somewhat obnoxious
Example sentencesExamples
- Its puerile response to grave matters would seem obnoxious if it did not yield such irresistible jokes.
- Sadly the bottom line is that she spends a lot of money with us and by virtue of that we have to accept her obnoxious visits.
- More than just unpleasant, the obnoxious smell was stifling and suffocating.
- A decent living politician is one who is not actively corrupt, rude, obnoxious, vile or idiotic.
- I could have sworn this obnoxious clause had been dropped, after widespread criticism.
- I picked up the fake gun and held in a particularly obnoxious woman's face.
- I assume he was not aware of the fact that he was in a church and being extremely obnoxious.
- It has become bigger and more obnoxious than the people and events themselves.
- The water was a shade of obnoxious blue that gave the sky a run for its money.
- Like a nasty fungus or a obnoxious flatmate, the government will expand to fill any available space.
- I had a faint hope that the heat would remove that obnoxious weed ragwort from the roadsides of Cumbria.
- His is biased, obnoxious, and arrogant but we knew that about him before the book came out.
- Last night I turned into one of those obnoxious young things on a tour, just like I vowed never to be.
- Returning to her native city from Asia, she was driven home by a rude, obnoxious and deceitful driver.
- I had to call each of my clerks into my office one at a time and explain how what I did actually made the obnoxious guy feel worse.
- The smell of cigarettes can be rather obnoxious, even in the street.
- I started with obnoxious colours, brown and red mainly, and worked from there.
- We have, in this country, a generation of obnoxious, unruly, disrespectful louts.
- It is incredibly difficult to find a high school student who isn't obnoxious.
- I find it obnoxious and frightening to see drunks in bars and on the streets.
Synonyms
disagreeable, irksome, troublesome, annoying, irritating, vexatious, displeasing, uncomfortable, distressing, nasty, horrible, appalling, terrible, awful, dreadful, hateful, detestable, miserable, abominable, execrable, odious, invidious, objectionable, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, revolting, disgusting, distasteful, nauseating, unsavoury, unpalatable, ugly
unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty, distasteful, offensive, objectionable, unsavoury, unpalatable, dislikeable, off-putting, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, revolting, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, disgusting, odious, vile, foul, abhorrent, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, poisonous, noxious, obscene, base, hideous, scabrous

Origin

Late 16th century (in the sense ‘vulnerable to harm’): from Latin obnoxiosus, from obnoxius ‘exposed to harm’, from ob- ‘towards’ + noxa ‘harm’. The current sense, influenced by noxious, dates from the late 17th century.

单词	obnoxious
释义	Definition of obnoxious in English: obnoxious adjective əbˈnɒkʃəsəbˈnɑkʃəs Extremely unpleasant. 极令人不快的；令人厌恶的；可憎的 obnoxious odours he found her son somewhat obnoxious Example sentencesExamples Like a nasty fungus or a obnoxious flatmate, the government will expand to fill any available space. I find it obnoxious and frightening to see drunks in bars and on the streets. We have, in this country, a generation of obnoxious, unruly, disrespectful louts. More than just unpleasant, the obnoxious smell was stifling and suffocating. Returning to her native city from Asia, she was driven home by a rude, obnoxious and deceitful driver. I could have sworn this obnoxious clause had been dropped, after widespread criticism. It is incredibly difficult to find a high school student who isn't obnoxious. The water was a shade of obnoxious blue that gave the sky a run for its money. The smell of cigarettes can be rather obnoxious, even in the street. Last night I turned into one of those obnoxious young things on a tour, just like I vowed never to be. It has become bigger and more obnoxious than the people and events themselves. A decent living politician is one who is not actively corrupt, rude, obnoxious, vile or idiotic. I assume he was not aware of the fact that he was in a church and being extremely obnoxious. I had to call each of my clerks into my office one at a time and explain how what I did actually made the obnoxious guy feel worse. I started with obnoxious colours, brown and red mainly, and worked from there. His is biased, obnoxious, and arrogant but we knew that about him before the book came out. I picked up the fake gun and held in a particularly obnoxious woman's face. Sadly the bottom line is that she spends a lot of money with us and by virtue of that we have to accept her obnoxious visits. I had a faint hope that the heat would remove that obnoxious weed ragwort from the roadsides of Cumbria. Its puerile response to grave matters would seem obnoxious if it did not yield such irresistible jokes. Synonyms disagreeable, irksome, troublesome, annoying, irritating, vexatious, displeasing, uncomfortable, distressing, nasty, horrible, appalling, terrible, awful, dreadful, hateful, detestable, miserable, abominable, execrable, odious, invidious, objectionable, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, revolting, disgusting, distasteful, nauseating, unsavoury, unpalatable, ugly unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty, distasteful, offensive, objectionable, unsavoury, unpalatable, dislikeable, off-putting, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, revolting, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, disgusting, odious, vile, foul, abhorrent, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, poisonous, noxious, obscene, base, hideous, scabrous Derivatives obnoxiously adverb əbˈnɒkʃəsliəbˈnɑkʃəsli The ruling class is obnoxiously greedy, despoiling our planet and exploiting the people on it with a few bare restraints provided by popular pressure over the last century. Example sentencesExamples The reviews have been so obnoxiously positive, that, as a writer with an outlet, I felt there was a need to offer another opinion. The authentic memories are of April hatefully attacking her mother and siblings, behaving obnoxiously and threatening the peace and happiness of them all. Josh is obnoxiously ambitious, but he's so plagued with chronic insecurity and low self-esteem it's virtually impossible to hate him. Try not to get obnoxiously and tactlessly drunk. obnoxiousness noun əbˈnɒkʃəsnəsəbˈnɑkʃəsnəs I am outraged at the degree of obnoxiousness with which they are treating shareholders. Example sentencesExamples Sometimes you just have to embrace your inner obnoxiousness in order to combat someone else's. There's no doubt that email can bring out the abusiveness and obnoxiousness in some people, but it's still useful to know how people feel. As we have no TV, we've been continually targeted by the TV Licensing Authority with a series of letters of increasing obnoxiousness. There's general rudeness and then there is obnoxiousness. Origin Late 16th century (in the sense 'vulnerable to harm'): from Latin obnoxiosus, from obnoxius 'exposed to harm', from ob- 'towards' + noxa 'harm'. The current sense, influenced by noxious, dates from the late 17th century. innocent from Middle English: Literally meaning ‘not harming’, innocent goes back to Latin in- ‘not’ and nocere ‘to hurt, injure’, which also lies behind nuisance (Late Middle English), noxious (Late Middle English) ‘harmful’, its opposite innocuous (late 16th century), and obnoxious (late 16th century). Rhymes noxious Definition of obnoxious in US English: obnoxious adjectiveəbˈnɑkʃəsəbˈnäkSHəs Extremely unpleasant. 极令人不快的；令人厌恶的；可憎的 obnoxious odors he found her son somewhat obnoxious Example sentencesExamples Its puerile response to grave matters would seem obnoxious if it did not yield such irresistible jokes. Sadly the bottom line is that she spends a lot of money with us and by virtue of that we have to accept her obnoxious visits. More than just unpleasant, the obnoxious smell was stifling and suffocating. A decent living politician is one who is not actively corrupt, rude, obnoxious, vile or idiotic. I could have sworn this obnoxious clause had been dropped, after widespread criticism. I picked up the fake gun and held in a particularly obnoxious woman's face. I assume he was not aware of the fact that he was in a church and being extremely obnoxious. It has become bigger and more obnoxious than the people and events themselves. The water was a shade of obnoxious blue that gave the sky a run for its money. Like a nasty fungus or a obnoxious flatmate, the government will expand to fill any available space. I had a faint hope that the heat would remove that obnoxious weed ragwort from the roadsides of Cumbria. His is biased, obnoxious, and arrogant but we knew that about him before the book came out. Last night I turned into one of those obnoxious young things on a tour, just like I vowed never to be. Returning to her native city from Asia, she was driven home by a rude, obnoxious and deceitful driver. I had to call each of my clerks into my office one at a time and explain how what I did actually made the obnoxious guy feel worse. The smell of cigarettes can be rather obnoxious, even in the street. I started with obnoxious colours, brown and red mainly, and worked from there. We have, in this country, a generation of obnoxious, unruly, disrespectful louts. It is incredibly difficult to find a high school student who isn't obnoxious. I find it obnoxious and frightening to see drunks in bars and on the streets. Synonyms disagreeable, irksome, troublesome, annoying, irritating, vexatious, displeasing, uncomfortable, distressing, nasty, horrible, appalling, terrible, awful, dreadful, hateful, detestable, miserable, abominable, execrable, odious, invidious, objectionable, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, revolting, disgusting, distasteful, nauseating, unsavoury, unpalatable, ugly unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty, distasteful, offensive, objectionable, unsavoury, unpalatable, dislikeable, off-putting, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, revolting, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, disgusting, odious, vile, foul, abhorrent, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, poisonous, noxious, obscene, base, hideous, scabrous Origin Late 16th century (in the sense ‘vulnerable to harm’): from Latin obnoxiosus, from obnoxius ‘exposed to harm’, from ob- ‘towards’ + noxa ‘harm’. The current sense, influenced by noxious, dates from the late 17th century.
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