- 1討人厭的、令人反感的
If a person, a smell, a joke, or a habit is obnoxious, it is very unpleasant — so rude, so loud, or so in-your-face that other people want to get away. It is stronger than and ruder than unpleasant. Calling someone obnoxious is a real insult, used in everyday talk, not only in books. You can also use it for things: an obnoxious smell, obnoxious bright lights, an obnoxious that will not stop. Though actually, the Latin word English borrowed, obnoxius, meant something quite different: “under someone’s power,” or “liable to be punished.” English kept the shape and slowly dragged the meaning toward “harmful,” then toward “very offensive.” So today’s sense is true for how we talk now, but it is not what the old word first said.
組成A learned borrowing from Latin obnoxiōsus, from obnoxius (“guilty; under someone’s authority”) + English -ous. Obnoxius itself is obnoxius + the Latin suffix -ōsus, “full of.” The old meaning was “under someone’s power,” not “rude.”
同家族的字
- noxiousboth go back to Latin noxa, “harm”; noxious kept the “harmful” sense, while obnoxious moved toward “very unpleasant”
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
obnoxiousadj/əbˈnɒkʃəs/
- 1
Extremely offensive or unpleasant; very annoying, contemptible, or odious.
- Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
- The disturbance had commenced, like those of England, in the refusal of the parliament to sanction an obnoxious tax; but here all resemblance ended.
- 2
Unjustly disagreeable, argumentative or objectionable; brazenly rude.
- He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.
- I always feel out of place when I am around people. I feel obnoxious if I laugh or talk too much.
- 3
archaicobsoleteExposed or vulnerable to something, especially harm or injury.
- [T]he reſidence and the ſingle liuinges of miniſters preſume not onely to annihilate the ſolemne ordinations of ſuch as the Church muſt of force admit, but alſo to vrge a kinde of vniuerſall proſcription againſt them, to ſet dovvne articles to dravv commiſſions, and almoſt to name themſelues of the Quorum for inquirie into mens eſtates and dealings, vvhom at their pleaſure they vvould depriue and make obnoxious to vvhat puniſhment themſelues liſt, […]
- Thinke but hovv poore thou vvaſt, hovv obnoxious; / VVhom a ſmall lumpe of fleſh could poyſon thus.
- 4
obsoleteCausing harm or injury; harmful, hurtful, injurious.
- It [the crocodile] is the moſt obnoxious of all ſea monſters, […]
- In learning the uſeful part of every profeſſion, very moderate abilities vvill ſuffice; great abilities are generally obnoxious to the poſſeſſors. Life has been compared to a race; but the alluſion ſtill improves, by obſerving, that the moſt ſvvift are ever the moſt apt to ſtray from the courſe.
- 5
obsoleteDeserving of blame or punishment; blameworthy, guilty.
- And they dreſſed and prepard Hierome of Prage, an oath, in the Councell of Conſtance, by vvhich he muſt ſvveare, freely, voluntarily, (or elſe bee burned) and ſimplie, and vvithout condition, To aſſent to that Church, in all things, but eſpecially in the Doctrines of the Keyes, and Eccleſiaſtick immunities and reliques, and all the ceremonies, vvhich vvere the moſt obnoxious matters.
- [A]s our par[ti]cular Perſons vvere not obnoxious, ſo if any Engliſh or Dutch Ships came thither, perhaps vve might have an Opportunity to load our Goods, and get Paſſage to ſome other Place in India, nearer Home.
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obsoleteUnder the authority or power of someone; subject, subordinate; hence, deferential, submissive, subservient.
- [M]ost of them (the fellowes) being sneaking and obnoxious, they did run rather with the temper of the warden, than stand against him, to keep themselves in and enjoy their comfortable importances.
- 7
obsoleteFollowed by to: likely to do something.
- [O]ur corruption novv is more obnoxious and apter to admitte and inuite ſuch poyſonous ingredients, and temporall reſpects, then in thoſe purer times, […]
- [T]he time of Youth is moſt Obnoxious to forget God; there is great Inadvertency and Inconſiderateneſs, Incogitancy, Unſtableneſs, Vanity, love of Pleaſures, Eaſineſs to be corrupted in Youth; […]
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