Obnoxious vs Stinking - What's the difference?
obnoxious | stinking | Related terms |
Extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.
(archaic) exposed to harm or injury.
* 1661 , , page 26,
Having a pungent smell.
Very bad and undesirable.
(vulgar) An intensifier, a minced oath.
The emission of a foul smell.
* 2013 , Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited (page 42)
Obnoxious is a related term of stinking.
As adjectives the difference between obnoxious and stinking
is that obnoxious is extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible while stinking is having a pungent smell.As a verb stinking is
.As a noun stinking is
the emission of a foul smell.obnoxious
English
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.
stinking
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Despite leading the way for years, the new model is really stinking .
- We don't need your stinking sympathy.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings , quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.