Obnoxious means so loud and unpleasant that everyone is annoyed. An obnoxious man, obnoxious behaviour, utterly obnoxious.
It is a strong criticism of a person rather than an act, and it implies the offence is deliberate or at least careless. It is commoner in American English than British. Note that the word once meant vulnerable or exposed to harm — obnoxious to injury — which is the opposite direction entirely, and that older sense is now dead outside legal writing.
1adjectiveobnoxiousSo loud and unpleasant that everyone is annoyed.
“An obnoxious man on the train shouted into his phone for the whole journey.”
synonyms: offensive, objectionable
obnoxious is a quality of offensiveness.
Latin
obnoxiōsus
English, today
obnoxious
Learned borrowing from Latin obnoxiōsus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Sharper Adjectives