Obnoxious

Definition: Obnoxious

Obnoxious

Adjective

1. Causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "obnoxious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Obnoxious

Hate

Obnoxious, hateful, odious, abominable, repulsive, offensive, shocking; disgusting; (disagreeable); reprehensible.

Inexpedience

Unlucky, sinister; obnoxious; untoward, disastrous.

Liability

Adjective: liable, subject; in danger; open to, exposed to, obnoxious to; answerable; unexempt from; apt to; dependent on; incident to.

Pain

Adjective: causing pain, hurting; Verb: hurtful; (bad); painful; dolorific, dolorous; unpleasant; unpleasing, displeasing; disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful; uninviting; unwelcome; undesirable, undesired; obnoxious; unacceptable, unpopular, thankless.

Crosswords: Obnoxious

You two are the most obnoxious people that I ever met. (The Cosby Show; writing credit: Bob Shayne)

The most obnoxious f g ring (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime García Estrada)

Aggressive: Obnoxious. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• How to Share the Good News Without Being Obnoxious About It (reference)

• Once I Was Obnoxious... and You'll Never Guess What Happened (You'll Never Guess What Happened Series/Includes Paper Doll) (reference)

• The Obnoxious Jerks (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Those Obnoxious Aliens (reference)

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Music

• Good the Bad the Obnoxious [IMPORT] (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "obnoxious": obnoxious to. Additional references.

Albanian

shumë i pakëndshëm (horrid), i padurueshëm (impossible, insufferable, insupportable, revolting, terrible, unbearable, unendurable), i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكروه (abhorrent, adversity, detestable, discomfort, hateful, misfortune, odious, ugly), ‏عفن (corrupt, decay, decompose, frowsty, fusty, mildew, mold, mould, musty, putrefaction, putrefy, putrid, rank, reek, rotten, septic, spoilt, stale, taint), ‏ذميم (dispraised, noxious, vilified), ‏شنيع (atrocious, awful, crying, enormous, foul, ghastly, ghoulish, gruesome, heinous, hideous, monstrous, nefarious, outrageous, ugly), ‏بغيض (abominable, accursed, antipathetic, beastly, blasted, cursed, damned, detestable, distasteful, dreadful, forbidding, frightful, hateful, horrid, impossible, nasty, noxious, objectionable, odious, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, sticky, ungrateful, unhappy, unlikely, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome, villainous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

омразен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, detestable, hateful, odious), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous), извънредно неприятен. (various references)

Chinese 

讨厌 (Nasty, Nuisance). (various references)

Czech

odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile), závadný, urážlivý (abusive, contumelious, huffish, huffy, hurtful, injurious, invective, offensive, outrageous, petulant, shocking, touchy), protivný (aggravating, beastly, bitchy, disagreeable, hateful, horrid, irksome, lousy, molestful, nasty, noisome, odious), škodlivý (bad, damaging, derogatory, detrimental, harmful, injurious, malign, nocent, noisome, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial). (various references)

Farsi 

منفور (Cussed, Hateful, Loathloth, Outcast, Scurvy, Ungracious, Unpopular), مضر (Adverse, Bad, Baneful, Derogatory, Evil, Foe, Harmful, Inadvisable, Inimical, Injurious, Insanitary, Nocuous, Noxious, Pernicious, Unwholesome), نفرت انگیز (Detestable, Execrable, Gruesome, Horrid, Invidious, Loathsome, Odious), گزنداور, زیان بخش . (various references)

Finnish

vastenmielinen (disagreeable, displeasing, repugnant, repulsive, unpleasant). (various references)

French

odieux, insupportable (objectionable), infect, détestable. (various references)

German

anstößig (disgusting, indecent, lewd, nasty, objectionable, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, shocking, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Greek 

μισητόσ (abhorrent, abominable, detestable, hated, hateful, invidious, odious), απεχθήσ (abhorrent, abject, abominable, loathful, loathsome, odious, repugnant, revolting), αποκρουστικόσ (abhorrent, forbidding, odious, repellent, repulsive, revolting). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�'ו� �" (disgraceful, foul, fulsome, improper, indecent, obscene, odious, opprobrious, shameful), � תעב (abhorred, abominable, detestable, foul, gruesome, hateful, loathsome, odious, vile). (various references)

Hungarian

kellemetlen (awkward, bad, bothersome, churlish, crabby, cumbersome, cumbrous, disagreeable, disappointing, displeasing, effing, evil, galling, grotty, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inconvenient, irksome, jarring, nasty, noisome, objectionable, pesky, pestilent, pestilential, plaguy, poisonous, to be in a hole, trying, unaffected, ungracious, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, untoward), ellenszenves (antipathetic, antipathetical, antipathic, disagreeable, distasteful, effing, repugnant, repulsive, sodding, unlovely). (various references)

Indonesian

sengak (piercing in smell, pungent). (various references)

Italian

odioso (accursed, cursed, detestable, hated, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrid, invidious, odious, unpleasant), sgradevole (bad, bleak, disagreeable, dismal, distasteful, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, nasty, objectionable, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unsightly), ripugnante (abhorrent, disgusting, dislikable, distasteful, hideous, loathful, loathsome, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, unsavory, unsavoury), detestabile (abhorrent, accursed, detestable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

祭り込む (to place an obnoxious person in an out-of-the-way post to be rid of him or her), おとぎ話 (bedpan, chamber pot, coweringly, fairy tale, female transvestite, flattery, generally obnoxious middle-aged woman, good luck charm, hesitantly, screw, sexual intercourse, vagina, virgin). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おばたりあ�" (generally obnoxious middle-aged woman), まつり�"む (to place an obnoxious person in an out-of-the-way post to be rid of him or her). (various references)

Korean 

불쾌한 (Nasty, unpleasant). (various references)

Manx

graney (bad-looking, dirty, dirty as trick, execrable, gruesome, hideous, ill-favoured, lousy, nasty, objectionable, revolting, rotten, ugly, uncomely). (various references)

Pig Latin

obnoxiousay.(various references)

Portuguese

ofensivo (aggressive, hurtful, injurious, objectionable, offensive, rude, shocking, wrongful), obnóxio, desagradável (bad, beastly, bleak, brackish, crabbed, desagreeable, disagreeable, disgusting, dismal, displeasing, distasteful, dreadful, dreary, fearful, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, nasty, objectionable, offensive, repellent, seamy, ugly, uncomfortable, uncongenial, undesirable, ungrateful, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unthankful, untoward, unwelcome, unwished), chocante (abrupt, amazing, filthy, harsh, jarring, knockdown, odious, offensive, outrageous, revolting, shocking, sickening, startling). (various references)

Romanian

respingãtor pentru, respingãtor (abhorrent, awful, awfully, disagreeable, dreadful, dreadfully, forbidding, foul, fulsome, hideous, infamous, obscene, odious, odiousness, offensive, pestilent, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, repulsively, scurvy, unprepossessing, verminous), neplãcut (acrid, annoying, bad, beastly, bothersome, brackish, dark, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, niggling, objectionable, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, provoking, snuffy, sorry, ugly, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), insuportabil (aggravating, beyond endurance, exquisite, fierce, impossible, insufferable, insupportable, keen, obnoxiously, oppressive, outrageous, past endurance, trying, unbearable, unbearably, unendurable). (various references)

Russian 

противный (antipathetic, antipathetical, cross, disagreeable, disgustful, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, horrible, horrid, loathful, loathsome, mucky, nasty, poisonous, unlovely). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely, vile), mrzak (abhorrent, detestable, hateful, heinous, loath, loathful, loth, odious). (various references)

Spanish

odioso (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, despiteful, detestable, hated, hateful, invidious, odious, poisonous), molesto (aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, ill at ease, importunate, inconvenient, irksome, irritating, objectionable, obtrusive, plaguy, provoking, pushing, pushy, troublesome, trying, unwelcome, vexatious, vexed), malsonante (objectionably, shocking), detestable (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, awful, damnable, detestable, hateful, horrible, loathful, loathsome, odious, terrible, vile), desagradable (bloody minded, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, nasty, objectionable, ornery, painful, unpleasant, unpleasing, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Swedish

vidrig (disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, filthy, foul, horrid, loathful, loathsome, nasty, obscene, offensive, vile), anstötlig (aggravating, invidious, objectionable, offensive, scandalous). (various references)

Thai

น่ารังเกียจ (clingin, foul, hateable, icky-poo, loathsome, lousy, noisome, obscene, odious, putrid). (various references)

Turkish

uygunsuz (derogatory, illegitimate, impolitic, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ineligible, inexpedient, infelicitous, malapropos, near the knuckle, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncalled for, unchristian, uncomely, unhandsome, unpropitious, unseemly, unsuitable, untoward, wrong), pis (augean, black, dingy, dirty, dungy, effing, filthy, foul, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, offensive, scruffy, scummy, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), çirkin (beastly, eldritch, flagrant, foul, god-awful, heinous, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, plain, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Ukrainian

караний (blameworthy, nocent, punishable), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), нестерпний (chronic, cruel, excruciating, impassive, impossible, insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, painful, pink, racking, repugnant, unbearable), непри�"мний (acerbic, bad, beastly, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, grisly, hack, importune, nasty, objectionable, offensive, painful, plaguy, poor, provoking, snooty, tedious, ugly, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unlovely, unpleasant, unwelcome), підвладний, противний (abominable, offensive, unsavoury, wretched), доступний (accessible, approachable, available, negotiable, obtainable, open, pervious, procurable). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khó chịu (accursed, accurst, annoyed, beastly, colour, devil, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, incommodious, nasty, noisome, obtrusive, plaguesome, queer, tiresome, unacceptable, unpleasant, unpleasing, vile, vinegar), đáng ghét (accursed, accurst, anathematic, anathematical, cursed, cursedly, loathly, loathsome, unpleasant). (various references)

obnoxiosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "obnoxious": obnoxiously, obnoxiousness, obnoxiousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Obnoxious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abnoxious, obnaxious, obnexious, obnocious, obnoctious, obnotious, obnoxcious, obnoxios, obnoxioua, obnoxiuos, obnoxius, obnoxous, obnozious, obnxious, ubnoxious. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: niobous, noxious.

-4 letters: bison, bonus, boons, boson, bosun, unbox.

-5 letters: bins, bios, boon, boos, buns, ions, nibs, nobs, nous, nubs, obis, onus, snib, snob, snub, soon.

+2 letters: obnoxiously.

+4 letters: obnoxiousness.