Noxious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Harmful to living things; injurious to health: noxious chemical wastes.
  • adj. Harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting: noxious ideas.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Harmful; injurious.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; ; pernicious; corrupting to morals.
  • adj. Guilty; criminal.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious: as, noxious vapors; noxious animals.
  • Guilty; criminal.
  • Synonyms Noxious, Pernicious, Noisome, pestiferous, pestilent, poisonous, mischievous, corrupting. That which is noxious is actively and energetically harmful. That which is pernicious is as actively destructive. Noisome and noxious were once essentially the same (see Job xxxi. 40, margin; Ps. xci. 3; Ezek. xiv. 21), but noisome now snggests primarily foulness of odor, with a secondary noxiousness to health. Unwholesome vapors that do not offend the sense of smell would now hardly be called noisome.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. injurious to physical or mental health
  • Equivalent
    pestilent    degrading    pernicious    deadly    vesicatory    vesicant    corrupting    baneful   
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    obnoxious   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    poisonous    noisome    harmful    fetid    deleterious    pungent    toxic    nauseous    foul    pestiferous