Injurious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful: eating habits that are injurious to one's health.
  • adj. Slanderous; libelous: made injurious statements about his rival.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Causing physical harm or injury; harmful.
  • adj. Causing harm to one's reputation; slanderous, libelous, invidious.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable.
  • adj. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending to injure or impair; inflicting harm, wrong, or mischief; of a harmful nature or quality; deleterious; detrimental; hurtful: as, an injurious action or speech; conduct injurious to health or morality.
  • Prone to injure; having disposition or capacity to inflict harm or suffering; hostile; dangerous.
  • Abusive; insulting.
  • Synonyms Damaging, disadvantageous, prejudicial, mischievous, destructive.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. harmful to living things
  • Equivalent
    harmful   
    Cross Reference
    harmful   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    harmful    detrimental    ruinous    hurtful    pernicious    noxious    mischievous    deleterious    baneful    wrongful   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    curious    furious    spurious   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    harmful    beneficial    pernicious    unjust    hurtful    detrimental    destructive    unwise    inconvenient    erroneous