Noxious \Nox"ious\, a. [L. noxius, fr. noxa harm; akin to nocere
to harm, hurt. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy.]
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1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious;
destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air,
food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as,
noxious practices or examples.
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Too frequent an appearance in places of public
resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. --Swift.
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2. Guilty; criminal. [R.]
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Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. --Abp.
Bramhall.
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Syn: Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive;
pernicious; mischievous; corrupting; baneful;
unwholesome; insalubrious. See Noisome.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
noxious
adj : injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical
wastes"; "noxious ideas" [syn: harmful] [ant: innocuous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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