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[ in-joor-ee-uhs ] / ɪnˈdʒʊər i əs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR injurious ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveharmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits. doing or involving injury or wrong, as to another: injurious behavior. insulting; abusive; defamatory; offensive: an injurious statement. Origin of injurious1375–1425; late Middle English <Latin injūrius or injūriōsus.See injury, -ous SYNONYMS FOR injurious1 damaging, deleterious, pernicious; baneful, destructive, ruinous. 2 unjust, wrongful, prejudicial, inequitable. 3 derogatory, slanderous, libelous. SEE SYNONYMS FOR injurious ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR injurious1 beneficial. 3 complimentary. SEE ANTONYMS FOR injurious ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM injuriousin·ju·ri·ous·ly, adverbin·ju·ri·ous·ness, nounnon·in·ju·ri·ous, adjectivenon·in·ju·ri·ous·ly, adverb non·in·ju·ri·ous·ness, nounpre·in·ju·ri·ous, adjectivequa·si-in·ju·ri·ous, adjectivequa·si-in·ju·ri·ous·ly, adverbself-in·ju·ri·ous, adjectiveun·in·ju·ri·ous, adjectiveun·in·ju·ri·ous·ly, adverbun·in·ju·ri·ous·ness, noun Words nearby injuriousinjudicious, Injun, injunct, injunction, injure, injurious, injury, injury list, injury time, injustice, ink Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for injuriousHe is at risk of being pulled into that most dangerous of all places, the injurious world of celebrity. Kevin Ware’s Broken Leg Will Live On in the Annals of Grisly Injuries|Kent Sepkowitz|April 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST The cast he wears on his leg and the crutch he uses would seem to fit into the injurious arc of your career if nothing else. Pablo Schreiber on His New Off-Broadway Play|Kevin Sessums|February 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST When aquaria first came into favour such things as snails and weeds were excluded as eyesores and injurious. The Open Air|Richard Jefferies All these substances, I believe, without exception, are injurious. The Young Mother|William A. Alcott
A germ disease highly contagious and one of the most injurious of those which affect dairy cattle. Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry|Pratt Food Co. The injurious consequences which may result to the city are also exposed. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I|Various Of these many possible relations some would be injurious to ourselves; some would be destructive of the object. Practical Ethics|William DeWitt Hyde
British Dictionary definitions for injurious
adjectivecausing damage or harm; deleterious; hurtful abusive, slanderous, or libellous Derived forms of injuriousinjuriously, adverbinjuriousness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to injuriousunhealthy, insulting, adverse, noxious, poisonous, pernicious, harmful, prejudicial, detrimental, slanderous, disadvantageous, ruinous, destructive, damaging, abusive, bad, baneful, corrupting, dangerous, deadly |