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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Noxious \Nox"ious\, adjective [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. --Swift.
2. Guilty; criminal. [R.]
Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. --Abp. Bramhall.
Syn: Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive; pernicious; mischievous; corrupting; baneful; unwholesome; insalubrious. See {Noisome}. -- {Nox"ious*ly}, adverb -- {Nox"ious*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noxious
adjective: injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas" [syn: {harmful}] [ant: {innocuous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "noxious": 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
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