Meaning of NOXIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'nâkshus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas" |
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| | Synonyms: | | baneful, corrupting, deadly, degrading, harmful, pernicious, pestilent, vesicant, vesicatory |
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| | Antonyms: | | harmless, innocuous | | |
| | See Also: | | toxic, unwholesome | |
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| | Definition: | | \Nox"ious\, a. [L. noxius, fr. noxa harm; akin to nocere
to harm, hurt. Cf. {Nuisance}, {Necromancy}.]
1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious;
destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air,
food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as,
noxious practices or examples.
Too frequent an appearance in places of public
resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. --Swift.
2. Guilty; criminal. [R.]
Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. --Abp.
Bramhall.
Syn: Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive;
pernicious; mischievous; corrupting; baneful;
unwholesome; insalubrious. See {Noisome}. --
{Nox"ious*ly}, adv. -- {Nox"ious*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | abhorrent, abominable, bad, bad for, bad-smelling, baleful, baneful, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, bitchy, brackish, catching, cloying, communicable, contagious, contaminated, contemptible, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, crude, cussed, damaging, deadly, deleterious, despicable, destructive, detestable, detrimental, disadvantageous, disgusting, disserviceable, distressing, envenomed, execrable, fecal, fetid, forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graveolent, gross, harmful, hateful, heinous, high, hurtful, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, infectious, infective, iniquitous, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, invidious, lethal, loathsome, maggoty, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, malodorous, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, mischievous, moldy, morbific, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nidorous, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, ominous, ornery, overripe, pathogenic, peccant, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, polluted, prejudicial, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scatheful, septic, sickening, sickly, smellful, smelling, smelly, spoiled, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tainted, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesome, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, vile, virulent, vomity, weevily, wicked, yucky |
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