Definition of noxious Noxious
/nɑˈkʃʌs/ - [nakshus] - nox•ious
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What does noxious mean?
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Adjectivenoxious, noxiouser, noxiousest |
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| noxious - injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas" | ||
| innocuous not injurious to physical or mental health | ||
| harmful causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" | ||
| toxic of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison; "suffering from exposure to toxic substances" | ||
| unwholesome detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" | ||
| baneful, pernicious, pestilent, deadly exceedingly harmful | ||
| degrading, corrupting that infects or taints | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- noxious (a.)
Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. - noxious (a.)
Guilty; criminal.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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noxious
nok′shus, adj. hurtful: unwholesome: injurious: destructive: poisonous.—adj. Nox′al, relating to wrongful injury.—adv. Nox′iously.—n. Nox′iousness. [L. noxius—noxa, hurt—nocēre, to hurt.]
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