Usually means: Extremely unpleasant, annoying, or offensive.
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  1. obnoxious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. obnoxious: Merriam-Webster
  3. obnoxious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. obnoxious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. obnoxious: Collins English Dictionary
  6. obnoxious: Vocabulary.com
  7. Obnoxious, obnoxious: Wordnik
  8. obnoxious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. obnoxious: Wiktionary
  10. obnoxious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. obnoxious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. obnoxious: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Obnoxious, obnoxious: Dictionary.com
  14. obnoxious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. obnoxious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Obnoxious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Obnoxious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. obnoxious: Rhymezone
  19. obnoxious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. obnoxious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. obnoxious: FreeDictionary.org
  22. obnoxious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. obnoxious: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. obnoxious: Legal dictionary

(Note: See obnoxiously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Extremely offensive or unpleasant; very annoying, contemptible, or odious.
adjective:  (of a person) Unjustly disagreeable, argumentative or objectionable; brazenly rude.
adjective:  (archaic or obsolete) Exposed or vulnerable to something, especially harm or injury.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  Causing harm or injury; harmful, hurtful, injurious.
adjective:  Deserving of blame or punishment; blameworthy, guilty.
adjective:  Under the authority or power of someone; subject, subordinate; hence, deferential, submissive, subservient.
adjective:  Followed by to: likely to do something.

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