Injurious \In*ju"ri*ous\, a. [L. injuriousus, injurius; cf. F.
injurieux. See Injury.]
1. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. [Obs.] --Milton.
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Till the injurious Roman did extort
This tribute from us, we were free. --Shak.
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2. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental;
mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit,
reputation, property, etc.
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Without being injurious to the memory of our English
Pindar. --Dryden.
Syn: Harmful; hurtful; pernicious; mischievous; baneful;
deleterious; noxious; ruinous; detrimental.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
injurious
adj 1: harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
[syn: deleterious, hurtful]
2: tending to cause great harm [syn: evil, harmful]
WordNet (r) 2.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "injurious":
abusive, adverse, bad, bad for, baleful, baneful, calumnious,
contaminated, contemptuous, corroding, corrosive, corrupting,
corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, defamatory,
deleterious, deprecatory, derogatory, destructive, detrimental,
disadvantageous, disparaging, disserviceable, distressing, eroding,
erosive, evil, foul, harmful, harsh, hurtful, insalubrious,
insanitary, insulting, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign,
malignant, mischievous, morbific, noisome, noxious, offensive,
ominous, pathogenic, peccant, pernicious, pestiferous, poisonous,
polluted, prejudicial, ruinous, scandalous, scatheful, scornful,
scurrilous, septic, slanderous, tainted, toxic, unadvantageous,
unfavorable, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unprofitable,
unrewarding, unsanitary, unwholesome, useless, venenate,
veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, worthless
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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