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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Poisonous \Poi"son*ous\, adjective Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious. --Shak. -- {Poi"son*ous*ly}, adverb -- {Poi"son*ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
poisonous
adjective
1: having the qualities or effects of a poison [syn: {toxicant}]
2: not safe to eat
3: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "a malevolent lie"; "poisonous hate...in his eyes"- Ernest Hemingway; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn: {venomous}, {vicious}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "poisonous": bad, baleful, baneful, barfy, brackish, catching, cloying, communicable, contagious, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dangerous, deadly, defamatory, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, diabolical, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, envenomed, evil, fatal, fetid, foul, fulsome, harmful, high, hurtful, icky, infectious, infective, injurious, lethal, maggoty, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, mortal, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, offensive, ominous, overripe, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poison, prejudicial, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rotten, scatheful, septic, sickening, slanderous, spoiled, stinking, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, vile, virulent, vomity, weevily, yucky
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