English-Thai Dictionary

obnoxious

ADJ น่ารังเกียจ  น่าสะอิดสะเอียน  น่าขยะแขยง  nasty offensive pleasing pleasant na-rang-kiad

 

obnoxiously

ADV อย่าง น่ารังเกียจ  cruelly unwelcomely yang-na-rang-kiad

 

obnoxiousness

N ความ น่าขยะแขยง  kwam-na-ka-ya-ka-yang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OBNOXIOUS

a.[L. obnoxius; ob and noxius, hurtful, from noceo.] 1. Subject; answerable.
The writings of lawyers, which are tied and obnoxious to their particular laws.
2. Liable; subject to cognizance or punishment.
We know ourselves obnoxious to God's severe justice.
3. Liable; exposed; as friendship obnoxious to jealousies.
4. Reprehensible; censurable; not approved; as obnoxious authors.
5. Odious; hateful; offensive; with to; as, the minister was obnoxious to the whigs.
6. Hurtful; noxious.

 

OBNOXIOUSLY

adv. 1. In a state of subjection or liability.
2. Reprehensibly; odiously; offensively.

 

OBNOXIOUSNESS

n. 1. Subjection or liableness to punishment.
2. Odiousness; offensiveness. The obnoxiousness of the law rendered the legislature unpopular.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

OBNOXIOUS

Ob *nox "ious, a. Etym: [L. obnoxius; ob (see Ob- ) + noxius hurtful. See Noxious. ]

 

1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton. Obnoxious, first or last, To basest things Milton.

 

2. Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy. "The contrived and interested schemes of. ..obnoxious authors." Bp. Fell. All are obnoxious, and this faulty land, Like fainting Hester, does before you stand Watching your scepter. Waller.

 

3. Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs. Burke. -- Ob *nox "ious *ly, adv. -- Ob *nox "ious *ness, n. South.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

obnoxious

ob nox ious |əbˈnäkSHəs əbˈnɑkʃəs | ▶adjective extremely unpleasant. DERIVATIVES ob nox ious ly adverb, ob nox ious ness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘vulnerable [to harm ]’): from Latin obnoxiosus, from obnoxius ‘exposed to harm, ’ from ob- ‘toward ’ + noxa ‘harm. ’ The current sense, influenced by noxious, dates from the late 17th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

obnoxious

obnoxious |əbˈnɒkʃəs | ▶adjective extremely unpleasant: obnoxious odours | he found her son somewhat obnoxious. DERIVATIVES obnoxiously adverb, obnoxiousness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent. (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 cent.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

obnoxious

obnoxious adjective 1 the gasoline-powered pump made an obnoxious racket: unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty, distasteful, offensive, objectionable, unsavory, unpalatable, off-putting, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, revolting, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, disgusting, odious, vile, foul, abhorrent, loathsome, nauseating, sickening, hateful, insufferable, intolerable, detestable, abominable, despicable, contemptible; informal horrible, horrid, ghastly, gross, putrid, yucky, godawful, beastly, skanky; literary noisome. ANTONYMS delightful, fragrant. 2 I prayed I could express myself without being obnoxious: annoying, tiresome, irritating; overbearing, bumptious; unpleasant, nasty; informal bratty, pesky. ANTONYMS pleasant, charming.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

obnoxious

obnoxious adjective a thoroughly obnoxious man | the smell was particularly obnoxious. See unpleasant.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

obnoxious

ob nox ious /ɑbnɑ́kʃəs |əbnɔ́k -/形容詞 «…にとって » 〈音 人 においなどが 〉ひどく不快で気に障る, 実に嫌な (unpleasant ) «to » .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞