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Definition: Obnoxiously |
ObnoxiouslyAdverb1. In an obnoxious manner; "he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ObnoxiouslySynonyms: objectionably (adv), offensively (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Obnoxiously |
| Specialty definitions using "obnoxiously": smurf. (references) |
| "Obnoxiously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Obnoxiously" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "obnoxiously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | në mënyrë të pakëndshme, në mënyrë të padurueshme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 讨厌地 (Nastily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | anstößig (disgusting, indecent, lewd, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, offensively, shocking, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sgradevolmente (nastily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불쾌하게 (Nastily, unpleasantly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obnoxiouslyay neplãcut (acrid, annoying, bad, beastly, bothersome, brackish, dark, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, niggling, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, offensively, provoking, snuffy, sorry, ugly, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), insuportabil (aggravating, beyond endurance, exquisite, fierce, impossible, insufferable, insupportable, keen, obnoxious, oppressive, outrageous, past endurance, trying, unbearable, unbearably, unendurable). (various references) оскорбительно (abusively, foully), неприятно (unpalatably, unpleasantly, wickedly). (various references) อย่างน่ารังเกียจ (nastily, objectionably). (various references) огидно (abhorrently, dreadfully, hideously, nauseatingly, odiously, offensively), образливо (foully, offensively, opprobriously, outrageously), неприємно (disagreeably, nastily, offensively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Obnoxiously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abnoxiously. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-l-n-o-o-o-s-u-x-y" | |
-2 letters: noxiously, obnoxious. | |
-3 letters: sonobuoy. | |
-4 letters: blouson, niobous, noxious. | |
-5 letters: blousy, bolson, busily, insoul, nosily, obolus, solion. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 62 6E 6F 78 69 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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