noxious

English

Alternative forms

• noctious (obsolete)

Etymology

From noxius (“hurtful, injurious”), from noxa (“hurt, injury”), for *nocsa, from nocere (“to hurt, injure”); see nocent.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈnɒkʃəs/

Adjective

noxious (comparative more noxious, superlative most noxious)

1. Harmful; injurious.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "noxious" is often applied: substance, chemical, fume, gas, odor, plant, weed, animal, stimulus, stimulation.

Synonyms

• harmful, injurious; see also Wikisaurus:harmful

Translations

harmful

• Finnish: vahingollinen (fi), haitallinen (fi), myrkyllinen (fi)
• French: nocif (fr) m
• Italian: insalubre (it), nocivo (it), malsano (it)
• Japanese: 有毒な (ゆうどくな, yūdokuna)
• Polish: szkodliwy, niezdrowy
• Portuguese: nocivo (pt) m

• Romanian: nociv (ro) m and n, vătămător (ro) m and n, nesănătos (ro) m and n
• Russian: ядовитый (ru) (jadovityj), вредный (ru) (vrednyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ште̏тан (sh) m

  Roman: štȅtan (sh) m

• Spanish: nocivo (es) m

External links

• noxious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• noxious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• noxious at OneLook Dictionary Search