Definitions for Injurious
ɪnˈdʒʊər i əsin·ju·ri·ous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. deleterious, hurtful, injuriousadjective

   harmful to living things

   "deleterious chemical additives"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. injuriousadjective

   causing physical harm or injury; harmful

2. injuriousadjective

   causing harm to one's reputation; slanderous, libelous, invidious

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Injuriousadverb

   Etymology: from injury; injurius, Lat. injurieux, Fr.

   1. Unjust; invasive of another's rights.

   Till the injurious Roman did extort
   This tribute from us, we were free. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

   Injurious strength would rapine still excuse,
   By off'ring terms the weaker must refuse. Dryden.

   2. Guilty of wrong or injury.

   Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
   After offence returning, to regain
   Love once possest. John Milton, Agonist. l. 1003.

   3. Mischievous; unjustly hurtful.

   Our repentance is not real, because we have not done what we can to undo our fault, or at least to hinder the injurious consequences of it from proceeding. John Tillotson, Sermons.

   4. Detractory; contumelious; reproachful; wrongful.

   A prison, indeed injurious, because a prison, but else well testifying affection, because in all respects as commodious as a prison can be. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   It is natural for a man, by directing his prayers to an image, to suppose the being he prays to represented by that image: which how injurious, how contumelious must it be to the glorious nature of God? Robert South, Sermons.

   If injurious appellations were of any advantage to a cause, what appellations would those deserve who thus endeavour to sow the seeds of sedition. Jonathan Swift.

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1. injurious

   Injurious refers to something that causes harm, damage, or injury, either physically, mentally, or detrimentally to a person's well-being or circumstances. It can also mean causing or likely to cause detriment or disadvantage.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Injuriousadjective

   not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable

2. Injuriousadjective

   causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit, reputation, property, etc

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Injurious in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Injurious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Injurious in a Sentence

1. Coleridge:

   It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

2. Michael Schadler:

   The agreement establishes unprecedented measures and enforcement provisions that will help protect American tomato farmers from injurious dumped Mexican tomatoes.

3. Chinese:

   Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body.

4. David Asher:

   The coverup continues via refusal to allow WHO access, accept CDC offers to assist, and simply tell the truth of this pandemic’s endemic dangerous, incessant and pernicious injurious traits, which has caused huge injury to the American people and citizens of the world, Chinese citizens included, does anyone sane doubt that?

5. Thomas Jefferson:

   The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Injurious
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Injurious
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Injurious
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Injurious