Usually means: Extremely unpleasant, annoying, or offensive.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word obnoxious:

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

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  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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