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   Ob·nox·ious

   /əbˈnäkSHəs/

   

   adjective

   • 1. extremely unpleasant: "obnoxious odors"

   Word Origin late 16th century (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 century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. obnoxiously adverb
   • 2. obnoxiousness noun

   Scrabble Points: 18

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