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noxious

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nox·ious  (nkshs)
adj.
1. Harmful to living things; injurious to health: noxious chemical wastes.
2. Harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting: noxious ideas.

[Middle English noxius, from Latin, from noxa, damage; see nek-1 in Indo-European roots.]

noxious·ly adv.
noxious·ness n.

noxious [ˈnɒkʃəs]
adj
1. poisonous or harmful
2. harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting
[from Latin noxius harmful, from noxa injury]
noxiously  adv
noxiousness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.noxious - injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"
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"
innocuous - not injurious to physical or mental health

noxious
adjective harmful, deadly, poisonous, unhealthy, hurtful, pernicious, injurious, unwholesome, noisome, pestilential, insalubrious, foul, baneful (archaic) carbon monoxide and other noxious gases
safe, harmless, innocuous, not dangerous, nontoxic
Translations
noxious [ˈnɒkʃəs] ADJnocivo
noxious [ˈnɒkʃəs] adj [fumes, gas, substance] → toxique
noxious
adj
(= harmful)schädlich; (= toxic) fumes, gas, substancegiftig
(= repugnant) smell, habitübel; attitudewiderlich
noxious [ˈnɒkʃəs] adjnocivo/a
noxious [ˈnɒkʃəs] adjnocivo/a


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Why do I find myself viewing this fellow in the light of a noxious insect?
The dairyman, who had thrown himself into abstraction to better realize the taste, and so divine the particular species of noxious weed to which it appertained, suddenly exclaimed--
He compared it with all the noxious experiences he had ever had--the drainage of war hospitals, of slaughter-houses, the refuse of dissecting rooms.
 
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