injurious

3 definitions found

injurious - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Injurious \In*ju"ri*ous\, a. [L. injuriousus, injurius; cf. F.
     injurieux. See Injury.]
     1. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. [Obs.] --Milton.
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              Till the injurious Roman did extort
              This tribute from us, we were free.   --Shak.
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     2. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental;
        mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit,
        reputation, property, etc.
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              Without being injurious to the memory of our English
              Pindar.                               --Dryden.
  
     Syn: Harmful; hurtful; pernicious; mischievous; baneful;
          deleterious; noxious; ruinous; detrimental.
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injurious - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  injurious
      adj 1: harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical
             additives" [syn: deleterious, hurtful, injurious]

injurious - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "injurious":
     abusive, adverse, bad, bad for, baleful, baneful, calumnious,
     contaminated, contemptuous, corroding, corrosive, corrupting,
     corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, defamatory,
     deleterious, deprecatory, derogatory, destructive, detrimental,
     disadvantageous, disparaging, disserviceable, distressing, eroding,
     erosive, evil, foul, harmful, harsh, hurtful, insalubrious,
     insanitary, insulting, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign,
     malignant, mischievous, morbific, noisome, noxious, offensive,
     ominous, pathogenic, peccant, pernicious, pestiferous, poisonous,
     polluted, prejudicial, ruinous, scandalous, scatheful, scornful,
     scurrilous, septic, slanderous, tainted, toxic, unadvantageous,
     unfavorable, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unprofitable,
     unrewarding, unsanitary, unwholesome, useless, venenate,
     veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, worthless