Meaning of INJURIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | in'jûreeus
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- [adj] tending to cause great harm
- [adj] harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
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| | Synonyms: | | deleterious, evil, harmful, hurtful, malign |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*ju"ri*ous\, a. [L. injuriousus, injurius; cf. F.
injurieux. See {Injury}.]
1. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. [Obs.] --Milton.
Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute
from us, we were free. --Shak.
2. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental;
mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit,
reputation, property, etc.
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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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