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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Injurious \In*ju"ri*ous\, adjective [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
injurious
adjective
1: harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives" [syn: {deleterious}, {hurtful}]
2: tending to cause great harm [syn: {evil}, {harmful}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "injurious": 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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