'Noxious' definitions:
Definition of 'noxious'
From: WordNet
adjective
Injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas" [ant: innocuous]
Definition of 'Noxious'
From: GCIDE
- Noxious \Nox"ious\, a. [L. noxius, fr. noxa harm; akin to nocere to harm, hurt. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. [1913 Webster]
- Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Guilty; criminal. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. --Abp. Bramhall. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive; pernicious; mischievous; corrupting; baneful; unwholesome; insalubrious. See Noisome. [1913 Webster] -- {Nox"ious*ly}, adv. -- {Nox"ious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'noxious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abhorrent,
- abominable,
- bad,
- bad for,
- bad-smelling,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- barfy,
- base,
- beastly,
- below contempt,
- beneath contempt,
- bitchy,
- brackish,
- catching,
- cloying,
- communicable,
- contagious,
- contaminated,
- contemptible,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- corrupting,
- corruptive,
- counterproductive,
- crude,
- cussed,
- damaging,
- deadly,
- deleterious,
- despicable,
- destructive,
- detestable,
- detrimental,
- disadvantageous,
- disgusting,
- disserviceable,
- distressing,
- envenomed,
- execrable,
- fecal,
- fetid,
- forbidding,
- foul,
- frowsty,
- frowy,
- frowzy,
- fulsome,
- funky,
- fusty,
- gamy,
- graveolent,
- gross,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- high,
- hurtful,
- icky,
- ignoble,
- ill-smelling,
- infectious,
- infective,
- iniquitous,
- injurious,
- insalubrious,
- insanitary,
- invidious,
- lethal,
- loathsome,
- maggoty,
- malefic,
- maleficent,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- malodorous,
- mawkish,
- mean,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmatic,
- miasmic,
- mildewed,
- mildewy,
- mischievous,
- moldy,
- morbific,
- musty,
- nasty,
- nauseant,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- nidorous,
- noisome,
- objectionable,
- obnoxious,
- obscene,
- odious,
- odorous,
- offensive,
- olid,
- ominous,
- ornery,
- overripe,
- pathogenic,
- peccant,
- pernicious,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- poisonous,
- polluted,
- prejudicial,
- putrid,
- rancid,
- rank,
- reasty,
- reasy,
- rebarbative,
- reechy,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rotten,
- scatheful,
- septic,
- sickening,
- sickly,
- smellful,
- smelling,
- smelly,
- spoiled,
- stenchy,
- stinking,
- strong,
- stuffy,
- sulfurous,
- tainted,
- toxic,
- toxicant,
- toxiferous,
- unhealthful,
- unhealthy,
- unhygienic,
- unsanitary,
- unwholesome,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- vile,
- virulent,
- vomity,
- weevily,
- wicked,
- yucky