Dictionary Definition
injurious adj
1 harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical
additives" [syn: deleterious, hurtful]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- causing physical harm or injury; harmful
- causing harm to one's reputation; slanderous, libelous, invidious
Derived terms
Translations
causing injury
- Finnish: vahingollinen
causing harm to one's reputation
- Dutch: iemands reputatie beschadigen
- Finnish: vahingollinen
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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