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

How to pronounce Injurious?

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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. Jon Fine:

   It is our understanding that your client's representatives, including The Washington Post, continue to pursue and to disseminate these false and spurious allegations in a manner that is injurious to American Media and American Media executives, accordingly, we hereby demand that you cease and desist such defamatory conduct immediately. Any further dissemination of these false, vicious, speculative and unsubstantiated statements is done at your client's peril.

2. Michael Schadler:

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

3. Marcus Aurelius:

   When another blames you or hates you, or when men say anything injurious about you, approach their poor souls, penetrate within, and see what kind of men they are. You will discover that there is no reason to be concerned that these men have this or that opinion about you.

4. James Fenimore Cooper:

   The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

5. 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.

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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