Obnoxious
[əb'nɒkʃəs] or [əb'nɑkʃəs]
Definition
(a.) Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
(a.) Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.
(a.) Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs.
Typed by Borg
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Liable, subject, exposed.[2]. Hateful, unpleasing, odious, offensive, unpopular.
Typed by Ann
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Odious, detrimental, pernicious, amenable, liable, blameworthy, offensive,answerable
ANT:Pleasant, grateful, whole_some, salutary, beneficial, unamenable, independent,exempt
Typed by Juan
Definition
adj. liable to hurt or punishment: exposed to: guilty: blameworthy: offensive: subject: answerable.—adv. Obnox′iously.—n. Obnox′iousness.
Typed by Damian
Examples
- All the obnoxious characters of change and diversity thus attach themselves to doing while knowing is as permanent as its object. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We swept on, and I felt that I was highly obnoxious to Camilla. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But some courses of action are too discommoding and obnoxious to others to allow of this course being pursued. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Something in the throat makes one cough; the tendency is to eject the obnoxious particle and thus modify the subsequent stimulus. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Some means besides the sickle and scythe, hoe and plough, were wanted to destroy obnoxious standing grass and weeds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typed by Damian