Obnoxious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Obnoxious \Ob*nox"ious\ ([o^]b*n[o^]k"sh[u^]s), a. [L. obnoxius;
     ob (see {Ob-}) + noxius hurtful. See {Noxious}.]
     1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with
        to.
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              The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to
              their particular laws.                --Bacon.
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              Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public
              than to be obnoxious to any private purse. --Milton.
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              Obnoxious, first or last,
              To basest things                      --Milton.
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     2. Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible;
        blameworthy. "The contrived and interested schemes of . .
        . obnoxious authors." --Bp. Fell.
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              All are obnoxious, and this faulty land,
              Like fainting Hester, does before you stand
              Watching your scepter.                --Waller.
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     3. Very offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious
        statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs. --Burke.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Ob*nox"ious*ly}, adv. --
        {Ob*nox"ious*ness}, n. --South.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  obnoxious
       adj : causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable
             person" [syn: {objectionable}, {unpleasant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  123 Moby Thesaurus words for "obnoxious":
     abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base,
     beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy,
     brutal, cheesy, contemptible, crude, crummy, debased, degraded,
     deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty,
     disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, exposed,
     fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, fulsome, grave,
     grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble,
     infamous, invidious, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low,
     low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic,
     miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nauseating,
     nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obscene,
     odious, offensive, open, outrageous, paltry, petty, pitiable,
     pitiful, poky, poor, prone, rank, rebarbative, regrettable,
     repellent, reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive,
     revolting, revulsive, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock,
     scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, sensitive, shabby, shameful,
     shocking, shoddy, sickening, small, sordid, squalid, stinking,
     subject, susceptible, terrible, too bad, unclean, unmentionable,
     vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched