Obnoxious vs Equivocal - What's the difference?
obnoxious | equivocal |
Extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.
(archaic) exposed to harm or injury.
* 1661 , , page 26,
Having two or more equally applicable meanings; capable of double or multiple interpretation; ambiguous; uncertain.
* Jeffrey
Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected.
* Milton
Uncertain, as an indication or sign; doubtful, incongruous.
* Burke
As adjectives the difference between obnoxious and equivocal
is that obnoxious is extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible while equivocal is having two or more equally applicable meanings; capable of double or multiple interpretation; ambiguous; uncertain.As a noun equivocal is
a word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque.obnoxious
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Alternative forms
* obnoctious (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.
- Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
- To begin then with his Experiment of the burning Wood, it seems to me to be obnoxious to not a few considerable Exceptions.
equivocal
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* (rare)Synonyms
* double entendreAdjective
(en adjective)- equivocal''' words; an '''equivocal sentence
- For the beauties of Shakespeare are not of so dim or equivocal a nature as to be visible only to learned eyes.
- His actions are equivocal .
- equivocal repentances
- How equivocal a test.
