What does injurious mean?

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

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. deleterious, hurtful, injuriousadjective

    harmful to living things

    "deleterious chemical additives"

Wiktionary

  1. injuriousadjective

    causing physical harm or injury; harmful

  2. injuriousadjective

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Injuriousadverb

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

    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.

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

    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.

    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.

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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. 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.

  2. Michael Matthay:

    The two together definitely could be more injurious to the lungs and cause more respiratory failure.

  3. 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.

  4. Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782):

    The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

  5. Frederick Saunders:

    Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

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  • vundaEsperanto
  • vahingollinenFinnish
  • हानिकारकHindi
  • nocivo, ingiurioso, dannosoItalian
  • prejudicios, păgubitor, dăunătorRomanian
  • повреждать, вредный, вредоносный, оскорбительный, клеветническийRussian
  • škòdljiv, шко̏дан, štȅtan, шко̀дљив, škȍdan, ште̏танSerbo-Croatian

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