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English Dictionary: noxious by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noxious
adj
  1. injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"
    Antonym(s): innocuous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Noxious \Nox"ious\, a. [L. noxius, fr. noxa harm; akin to nocere
      to harm, hurt. Cf. {Nuisance}, {Necromancy}.]
      1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious;
            destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air,
            food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as,
            noxious practices or examples.
  
                     Too frequent an appearance in places of public
                     resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. --Swift.
  
      2. Guilty; criminal. [R.]
  
                     Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. --Abp.
                                                                              Bramhall.
  
      Syn: Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive;
               pernicious; mischievous; corrupting; baneful;
               unwholesome; insalubrious. See {Noisome}. --
               {Nox"ious*ly}, adv. -- {Nox"ious*ness}, n.
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