objectionable

English

Etymology

From objection +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Adjective

objectionable (comparative more objectionable, superlative most objectionable)

1. Arousing disapproval; worthy of objection; offensive.

   Before removing objectionable material, you'll have to decide what will offend people.

   • 1944 January and February, C. F. Cobon, “The County of London Plan”, in Railway Magazine, page 24:

     The L.C.C. [London County Council] considers viaducts in London objectionable and a hindrance to town planning and would like to abolish all the Southern Railway lines on viaducts in South London. [Nothing much happened, they still exist.]

Antonyms

• unobjectionable

Collocations

with nouns

• objectionable content
• objectionable material
• objectionable language

Translations

offensive

• Bulgarian: нежелателен (bg) (neželatelen), предизвикващ възражения (predizvikvašt vǎzraženija)
• Dutch: bezwaarlijk (nl), aanstotelijk (nl), afkeurenswaardig (nl), laakbaar (nl), onaangenaam (nl)
• Finnish: paheksuttava (fi), moitittava (fi)
• French: répréhensible (fr), inacceptable (fr)
• German: unangenehm (de), unzulässig (de), störend (de), anstößig (de), anstoßerregend, anrüchig (de), nicht einwandfrei, zu beanstandend
• Hungarian: kifogásolható (hu)
• Latin: repudiōsus
• Maori: harehare
• Plautdietsch: wadalich
• Polish: niewłaściwy (pl), niepożądany (pl), niedopuszczalny (pl), nie na miejscu (pl)
• Russian: предосуди́тельный (ru) (predosudítelʹnyj)