Meanings
comparative more objectionable · superlative most objectionable
- Arousing disapproval; worthy of objection; offensive.
Before removing objectionable material, you'll have to decide what will offend people.
2 more examples
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.]
1944 January and February, C. F. Cobon, “The County of London Plan”, in Railway Magazine, page 24We don’t find every use of ALPRs objectionable. For example, we do not generally object to using them to check license plates against lists of stolen cars, for AMBER Alerts, or for toll collection, provided they are deployed and used fairly and subject to proper checks and balances, such as ensuring devices are not disproportionately deployed in low-income communities and communities of color, and that the “hot lists” they are run against are legitimate and up to date.
2023 February 13, Chad Marlow & Jay Stanley, “How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department’s Use of Flock’s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers”, in ACLU, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2025Synonyms: exceptionable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveArousing disapproval; worthy of objection; offensive.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveliable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian нежелателен, предизвикващ възражения
- нежелателен (neželatelen)offensive
- предизвикващ възражения (predizvikvašt văzraženija)offensive
Dutch bezwaarlijk, aanstotelijk
- bezwaarlijkoffensive
- aanstotelijkoffensive
- afkeurenswaardigoffensive
- laakbaaroffensive
- onaangenaamoffensive
Finnish paheksuttava, moitittava
- paheksuttavaoffensive
- moitittavaoffensive
French répréhensible, inacceptable
- répréhensibleoffensive
- inacceptableoffensive
German unangenehm, unzulässig
- unangenehmoffensive
- unzulässigoffensive
- störendoffensive
- anstößigoffensive
- anstoßerregendoffensive
- anrüchigoffensive
- nicht einwandfreioffensive
- zu beanstandendoffensive
Hungarian kifogásolható
- kifogásolhatóoffensive
Latin repudiōsus
- repudiōsusoffensive
Māori harehare
- harehareoffensive
Polish niewłaściwy, niepożądany
- niewłaściwyoffensive
- niepożądanyoffensive
- niedopuszczalnyoffensive
- nie na miejscuoffensive
Portuguese censurável, condenável
- censuráveloffensive
- condenáveloffensive
- repreensíveloffensive
Russian предосуди́тельный
- предосуди́тельный (predosudítelʹnyj)offensive
Cite this entry
objectionable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/objectionable
“objectionable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/objectionable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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