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- pronunciation:
- nak
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
harmful, dangerous, or destructive, esp. to health.
Noxious chemicals spewed from the smokestack for years.- synonyms:
- deleterious, harmful, lethal, noisome, pernicious, poisonous, toxic, unwholesome, virulent
- antonyms:
- harmless, innocuous, wholesome
- similar words:
- bad, baneful, deadly, destructive, detrimental, evil, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, malignant, mephitic, pestilential, poison, unhealthy
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| definition 2: |
harmful to the mind or moral character; corrupting.
She feared that this strange, rough boy would have a noxious influence on her son.- synonyms:
- corrupting, pestiferous, unhealthy, unwholesome
- antonyms:
- wholesome
- similar words:
- bad, evil, harmful, malignant, pestilent, poison, ruinous
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| related words: |
adverse, inimical, lethal, rotten |
| derivation: |
noxiously (adv.) |
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