physically harmful, poisonous; injurious to moral well-being, unwholesome; disgusting (usually of a smell)
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Noxious Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.
Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.
(a.)
Guilty; criminal.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutGuilty; criminal.
noxious
\nox"ious\ (?), a. [l. noxius, fr. noxa harm; akin to nocere to harm, hurt. cf. nuisance, necromancy.]
1. hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions.
2. guilty; criminal. [r.] those who are noxious in the eye of the law. bramhall.
Hurtful.
Eniwawl = a. hurtful, noxious
Niweidiol = a. hurtful, noxious
Adjective
1. injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"
(synonym) harmful
(antonym) innocuous, harmless
(similar) baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent
(see-also) harmful
Noxious Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries
Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances, air and gases
Noxious Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Noxious may refer to:
- Poison, substances that can harm or kill .
- Noxious weed, a plant designated by the government as injurious to public health, agriculture, recreation, wildlife or property
- Noxious stimulus, an actually or potentially tissue damaging event, may be mechanical, chemical or thermal
- Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974, a United States law that established a federal program to control the spread of noxious weeds
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