noxious
Use Noxious in a sentence
ʃəs adjective
1.
harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.
2.
morally harmful; corrupting; pernicious: a noxious plan to spread dissension.
Origin:
1605–15; < Latin noxius harmful, hurtful, injurious, equivalent to nox(a) harm, hurt, injury (akin to nocēre to do harm, inflict injury; see innocent) + -ius -ious
1605–15; < Latin noxius harmful, hurtful, injurious, equivalent to nox(a) harm, hurt, injury (akin to nocēre to do harm, inflict injury; see innocent) + -ius -ious
Related forms
nox·ious·ly, adverb
nox·ious·ness, noun
Synonyms
1. hurtful, unwholesome, unhealthy, nocuous, detrimental, deleterious. 2. corruptive.
1. hurtful, unwholesome, unhealthy, nocuous, detrimental, deleterious. 2. corruptive.
Antonyms
1, 2. harmless.
1, 2. harmless.
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World English Dictionary
noxious (ˈnɒkʃəs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | poisonous or harmful |
| 2. | harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting |
| [C17: from Latin noxius harmful, from noxa injury] | |
| 'noxiously | |
| —adv | |
| 'noxiousness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
noxious
1612, from L. noxius "hurtful, injurious," from noxa "injury, hurt, damage entailing liability" (related to nocere "to hurt," and to nex "slaughter"), from PIE *nek-ro-, causative form of root *nek- "death" (see necro-).
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Medical Dictionary
noxious nox·ious (nŏk'shəs)
adj.
Harmful to living things; injurious to health.
nox'ious·ness n.
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Example sentences
These chemicals can make plants smell good or, alternately, noxious.
But after a while, the beetles grew accustomed to the noxious noises, researchers found.
Business and politics too often overlap, often in a noxious cocktail with local and foreign spooks and crooks.
The expanded production of meat has been facilitated by industrial feedlots, which bleed antibiotics and other noxious chemicals.
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