Noxious

Word NOXIOUS
Character 7
Hyphenation nox ious
Pronunciations /ˈnɒkʃəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Noxious"

What do we mean by noxious?

Harmful to living things; injurious to health. adjective

Harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting. adjective

Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious: as, noxious vapors; noxious animals.

Guilty; criminal.

Synonyms Noxious, Pernicious, Noisome, pestiferous, pestilent, poisonous, mischievous, corrupting. That which is noxious is actively and energetically harmful. That which is pernicious is as actively destructive. Noisome and noxious were once essentially the same (see Job xxxi. 40, margin; Ps. xci. 3; Ezek. xiv. 21), but noisome now snggests primarily foulness of odor, with a secondary noxiousness to health. Unwholesome vapors that do not offend the sense of smell would now hardly be called noisome.

Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; ; pernicious; corrupting to morals. adjective

Guilty; criminal. adjective

Harmful; injurious. adjective

Injurious to physical or mental health adjective

Harmful; injurious.

Exactly the same thing as obnoxious... Urban Dictionary

Radical, tubular, cool, amazing Urban Dictionary

A term used to decribe the potency of a poisonous substance. A term used to describe excitement or enjoyment referring to, or of, an event or situation. Urban Dictionary

A word that means cool, or dope. used as an adjective to describe something that was cool. Urban Dictionary

The opposite of "Obnoxious": Something that is very cool or something that the person using the word has no real opinion on because it's very miniscule or not worth worrying about. Urban Dictionary

Farts so deadly, the stench is powerful enough to kill 10 adult humans Urban Dictionary

A bad ass punk band from NE Philadelphia. Urban Dictionary

A hazardous, geologic event wherein a hyper-accelerating flow of highly concentrated, sulfur infused volcanic magma builds, cools and intermittently cracks, avulsing into jaggedly uniform, mobilzed 'slabs' of densely toxic rock formations. In rare and unique environmental conditions, migratory slabs have been observed to spontaneously combust into abounding flames upon impact with proximate flora, fauna and curious homosapien onlookers, resulting in a enveloping expulsion of sulfuric cinder chards and respiratory impairing, noxious fumes. Urban Dictionary

IPhones and other smartphones are now capable of all kinds of amazing feats. But while our technology has developed by leaps and bounds, human nature — specifically our tendency to become obsessed with shiny new toys — hasn’t changed a whit. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Noxious

The word "noxious" in example sentences

The good news, indeed, coming from this location, about 30 miles northwest of the previous Long Beach location here in the city of Los Angeles, L.A. firefighters, including our hazardous materials experts, have gone into a three-story AT&T telephone company switching office where they discovered approximately 10 persons who had become ill after being exposed to what they described as noxious fumes. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The only thing that makes me noxious is that this beautiful situation is so surreal we can only imagine it in an advert. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was sunk in noxious geekery with the switch to Shaw and GoDaddy, but I have not forgotten you. ❋ Superversive (2007)

Still more noxious is the writer Eduard Limonov, who heads the National Bolshevik Party and holds up Slobodan Milosevic as a model leader. ❋ Unknown (2005)

WEDEMAN: Cocktail No. 4 is what the detainees themselves call a noxious mix of sperm, spit, fecal matter and urine. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Kind of like bugs that come in noxious colors to avoid being eaten, you would need those bright colors to turn the head of that Escalade driver you’d be battling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They are classified as a noxious pest in Australia. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sometimes it is a sharp revelation of something ugly and perverse in my own nature ” I don't dwell long on that, but I see in imagination how it is likely to trouble me, and I hope that it will not delude me again; because these evil things delude one, they call noxious tricks by fine names. ❋ Benson, Arthur C. (1915)

From this Colony it is said to have been taken in the 16th or 17th century into the south of China, where its use was so much abused that the sale of this so-called noxious article was, for a long time, prohibited under penalty of death. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)

A medicine -- that is, a noxious agent, like a blister, a seton, an emetic, or a cathartic ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

TRPV2 receptor has been known as noxious heat-sensor (activated by > 52°C). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The program is important because when invasive plants (also called noxious weeds) are introduced, non-native plant species that take over our local landscapes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Was the campaign contribution made to reward Speaker Pelosi for echoing the extremist views of the Armenian National Committee of America, assailed as "noxious" by The Washington Post? ❋ Bruce Fein (2010)

Adam Dunn felt "noxious" when he arrived at Coors Field this morning, which is why Jim Riggleman gave him the day off. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You noxious! [I ain't] noxious! ❋ X39 (2003)

"Did you see me [shred] that [gnar]?" "Yeah, that was totally [noxious], brah". ❋ Etymologycrusader (2020)

[The drink] was quite [noxious] and he couldn't have survived. Damn, yo! That was some [wicked] noxious shit! Daaammmn! ❋ Gman (2004)

That was so [noxious]! ❋ BroLev (2023)

Example 1: Yo dude, that [skateboard] trick was so [noxious]. Example 2: I'm very noxious towards [Arby's] because I've never had their food. ❋ ClpudN1ne (2023)

Uber driver: Stop ripping noxious farts. Let me open the windows. I don't care if it's snowing outside, I have 2 kids & [I don't wanna die]. [Fartisha]: [Yeah whatever] ❋ Jumbled McGobbledygook (2021)

Dude did you go to the Noxious Waste show last night? [Nah dude], they dont have [shows] yet. [oh yea]... ❋ Colin (2005)

1. "Did you see how the lava formed into 'Pyro-noxious Slabs' when it came down the side of of [the volcano], cooling in rhythmic waves as it hit the ocean [water's] edge?" 2. "I still can't believe that Drew was instantaneously incinerated into a sulfuric [plume] of ash when that 'Pyro-noxious Slab' chased after him while he was trying to take pictures!" ❋ Charitable Disguise (2019)

Person 1: "[Wow dude], I just searched that [China] has over 3 [billion] people" Person 2: "You are so app-noxious, bro ..." ❋ Steven Glossy (2009)

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