About The Word Noxious
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Noxious
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What's The Definition Of Noxious?
[adj] injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Noxious: baneful | corrupting | deadly | degrading | harmful | pernicious | pestilent | vesicant | vesicatory Related Terms | Find terms related to Noxious: 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 See Also | toxic | unwholesome Noxious In Webster's Dictionary \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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