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Noxious Definition And Meaning
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"iously}, adv. -- {Nox"iousness}, n.

Noxious Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Noxious?

[adj] injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"

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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