OBJECTIONABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does objectionable mean? 

• OBJECTIONABLE (adjective)
  The adjective OBJECTIONABLE has 2 senses:

1. causing disapproval or protest

2. liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to

  Familiarity information: OBJECTIONABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBJECTIONABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing disapproval or protest

Synonyms:

objectionable; obnoxious

Context example:

a vulgar and objectionable person

Similar:

offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)

Derivation:

objectionableness (the quality of being hateful)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to

Synonyms:

exceptionable; objectionable

Context example:

found the politician's views objectionable

Similar:

unacceptable (not acceptable; not welcome)

Derivation:

objectionableness (the quality of being hateful)

 Context examples 

The most objectionable part is, that the alteration of manners on being introduced into company is frequently too sudden.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Three white-headed children peeped over the fence, and an objectionable dog barked at them from the other side of the river with all his might and main.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Besides, they are just as objectionable to me.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Do not you think these kind of projects objectionable?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

What sister would think herself at liberty to do it, unless there were something very objectionable?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: "I must keep in good health, and not die."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was in vain to represent to her that some conveniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from this objectionable practice.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The objectionable is eliminated, the inevitable is foreseen.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But the plan which had arisen on the sacrifice of this, he trusted his dearest Emma would not find in any respect objectionable; it was, that he should be received at Hartfield; that so long as her father's happiness—in other words, his life—required Hartfield to continue her home, it should be his likewise.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

They do not like me, and it is wrong of me to thrust my objectionable presence upon them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)