Meaning | injurious to physical or mental health. |
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Examples | - "noxious chemical wastes"
- "noxious ideas"
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Narrower | baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent | Exceedingly harmful |
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corrupting, degrading | harmful to the mind or morals |
vesicatory, vesicant | Causing blisters |
See also | harmful | Causing or capable of causing harm |
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toxic | Of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison |
unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being |
Opposite | innocuous | not injurious to physical or mental health |
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Spanish | nocivo, tóxico |
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Catalan | nociu, tòxic |
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Nouns | noxiousness | the quality of being noxious |
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Adverbs | noxiously | in a detrimental manner |
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