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Obnoxious vs Stinking - What's the difference?

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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

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As a noun stinking is

the emission of a foul smell.

obnoxious

English

Alternative forms

* obnoctious (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.
  • He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.
    Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
  • (archaic) exposed to harm or injury.
  • * 1661 , , page 26,
  • 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)
  • Having a pungent smell.
  • Very bad and undesirable.
  • Despite leading the way for years, the new model is really stinking .
  • (vulgar) An intensifier, a minced oath.
  • We don't need your stinking sympathy.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The emission of a foul smell.
  • * 2013 , Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited (page 42)
  • 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.
    English minced oaths