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View usage for: (nɒkʃəs) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]A noxious gas or substance is poisonous or very harmful. Many household products give off noxious fumes. ...carbon monoxide and other noxious gases. Synonyms: harmful, deadly, poisonous, toxic More Synonyms of noxious 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]If you refer to someone or something as noxious, you mean that they are extremely unpleasant. [formal] ...the heavy, noxious smell of burning sugar, butter, fats, and flour. Their behaviour was noxious. noxious in British English (ˈnɒkʃəs) adjective2. harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting Derived forms noxiously (ˈnoxiously) adverb noxiousness (ˈnoxiousness) noun Word origin C17: from Latin noxius harmful, from noxa injury noxious in American English (ˈnɑkʃəs) adjective1. harmful to the health; injurious a noxious gas 2. morally injurious; corrupting; unwholesome SIMILAR WORDS: perˈnicious Derived forms noxiously (ˈnoxiously) adverb noxiousness (ˈnoxiousness) noun Word origin L noxius < noxa, injury, hurt < nocere, to hurt, injure: see necro- Examples of 'noxious' in a sentencenoxious A STUDENT died after being overcome from noxious fumes at a university halls of residence.We carry oxygen tanks and gas detectors which detect noxious gases and low oxygen.The small probes were hissing and seemed to be emitting noxious gas.Do they spit venom or emit noxious smells?In addition, charcoal granules will absorb noxious gases.In fact they contained a chemical with an indelible, noxious smell.British airlines in particular had worried about the amount of CO2 and other noxious fumes blamed on flying.Speculation was rife that a ship at sea had emptied its tanks and released a noxious gas that was carried ashore on southerly winds.It should hardly need mentioning that the welfare of users demands that all interiors be free of products that emit unpleasant or noxious fumes.It comes off the wall like a noxious gas, as strong in the photographer as in the photographed.A university researcher is locked inside a lab as noxious fumes and rats for experimentation are let loose.The whole of central London is not entirely choked by noxious fumes, though.It is true that economic growth can degrade the environment: the noxious fumes in many Chinese cities are a case in point.A police spokesman said: 'It appears he was overcome by noxious fumes. Definition poisonous or harmful carbon monoxide and other noxious gases Synonyms toxic insalubrious foul baneful (archaic) Opposites safe , harmless , innocuous , not dangerous , nontoxic , innoxious Additional synonymsSynonyms harmful, fatal, deadly, disastrous, destructive, hurtful, pernicious (formal), noxious, venomous, ruinous, calamitous, baleful, deleterious (formal), injurious, pestilential, maleficent Definition likely to cause death a deadly disease currently affecting dolphins Synonyms lethal, fatal, deathly, dangerous, devastating, destructive, mortal, murderous, poisonous, toxic, malignant, virulent, pernicious (formal), noxious, venomous, baleful, death-dealing, banefulThese foods are considered detrimental to health. Synonyms damaging, destructive, harmful, adverse, pernicious (formal), unfavourable, prejudicial, baleful, deleterious (formal), injurious, inimical, disadvantageous- now
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Additional synonymsHer comments were very hurtful to Mrs Green's family. Synonyms unkind, upsetting, distressing, mean, cutting, damaging, wounding, nasty, cruel, destructive, harmful, malicious, mischievous, detrimental, pernicious (formal), spiteful, prejudicial, injurious, disadvantageous, maleficent Definition causing harm Stress in itself is not necessarily injurious. Synonyms harmful, bad, damaging, corrupting, destructive, adverse, unhealthy, detrimental, hurtful, toxic, pernicious (formal), noxious, ruinous, deleterious (formal), iniquitous, disadvantageous, baneful (archaic), maleficent, unconducive His noisome reputation for corruption had already begun to spread. Synonyms poisonous, bad, harmful, unhealthy, mischievous, hurtful, pernicious (formal), deleterious (formal), injurious, unwholesome, pestilential, baneful (archaic), pestiferous Definition causing grave harm the pernicious effects of alcoholism Synonyms wicked, bad, damaging, dangerous, evil, offensive, fatal, deadly, destructive, harmful, toxic, poisonous, malicious, malign, malignant, detrimental, hurtful, malevolent, noxious, venomous, ruinous, baleful, deleterious (formal), injurious, noisome, baneful (archaic), pestilent, maleficent the pestilential grey squirrel Synonyms deadly, dangerous, evil, foul, destructive, harmful, hazardous, detrimental, pernicious (formal), ruinous, deleterious (formal), injuriousDefinition of or like a poison All parts of the yew tree are poisonous. Synonyms toxic, fatal, deadly, lethal, mortal, virulent, noxious, venomous, baneful (archaic), mephiticDefinition likely to cause illness or poor health the unhealthy environment of a coal mine Synonyms harmful, detrimental, unwholesome, noxious, toxic, deleterious (formal), insanitary, noisome, insalubriousDefinition harmful to the body or mind a chemically reactive ecologically unwholesome substance Synonyms harmful, unhealthy, noxious, deleterious (formal), junk (informal), tainted, poisonous, insanitary, insalubrious, unnourishing |