What does Noxious mean?

Definitions for Noxious
ˈnɒk ʃəsnox·ious

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. noxiousadjective

    injurious to physical or mental health

    "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"

Wiktionary

  1. noxiousadjective

    Harmful; injurious.

  2. Etymology: From noxius, from noxa, for *, from nocere; see nocent.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. NOXIOUSadjective

    Etymology: noxius, Latin.

    Preparation and correction, is not only by addition of other bodies, but separation of noxious parts from their own. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. iv.

    Kill noxious creatures, where ’tis sin to save,
    This only just prerogative we have. Dryden.

    See pale Orion sheds unwholsome dews,
    Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse;
    Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay,
    Time conquers all, and we must time obey. Alexander Pope.

    Too frequent an appearance in places of much resort, is noxious to spiritual promotions. Jonathan Swift, Miscell.

    Those who are noxious in the eye of the law, are justly punished by them to whom the execution of the law is committed. John Bramhall, against Hobbs.

ChatGPT

  1. noxious

    Noxious generally refers to something harmful, poisonous or very unpleasant. It can relate to substances that are physically harmful or damaging (such as noxious gases or chemicals), or situations, comments, or behaviors that are morally or socially offensive or damaging.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Noxiousadjective

    hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples

  2. Noxiousadjective

    guilty; criminal

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Noxious

    nok′shus, adj. hurtful: unwholesome: injurious: destructive: poisonous.—adj. Nox′al, relating to wrongful injury.—adv. Nox′iously.—n. Nox′iousness. [L. noxiusnoxa, hurt—nocēre, to hurt.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Noxious in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Noxious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Noxious in a Sentence

  1. Mary Rose:

    They tried to persuade us they were good guys since they were a family-owned company. But they were spreading noxious fumes into a residential area, we tried to work with them, but their violations were just so blatant.

  2. Tommaso Valletti:

    This is good because it says to the company: you are doing something which is possibly noxious. Stop now. Immediate effect. To the extent this is foreclosing others, then it stops now, not in 10 years.

  3. Peter LeWitt:

    Water is a particularly noxious way of getting it into the system.

  4. Mario Lopez:

    This is killing the Republican Party and setting back the cause of Republican victory for sure, there is no question that Latino perceptions of the GOP are suffering a serious setback at the hands of Trump and those who back his wrongful and noxious language.

  5. Richard Brumfield:

    It was almost like adhesive, it was extremely noxious.

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