injurious
Americanadjective
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harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect.
injurious eating habits.
- Synonyms:
- ruinous, destructive, baneful, pernicious, deleterious, damaging
- Antonyms:
- beneficial
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doing or involving injury or wrong, as to another.
injurious behavior.
- Synonyms:
- inequitable, prejudicial, wrongful, unjust
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insulting; abusive; defamatory; offensive.
an injurious statement.
- Synonyms:
- libelous, slanderous, derogatory
- Antonyms:
- complimentary
adjective
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causing damage or harm; deleterious; hurtful
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abusive, slanderous, or libellous
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of injurious
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin injūrius or injūriōsus. See injury, -ous
Explanation
Injurious things should be avoided. They cause pain, harm, and — yes — injuries. Handle with care! If you know what an injury is, you have a head start on learning injurious. Anything injurious is dangerous. At a construction site, almost anything could be injurious, if you don't know what you're doing (or even if you do). Falling off a ladder could be very injurious. Even crossing the street can have injurious effects if you're hit by a car. If this word turns up in your diary a dozen times, you're probably in the hospital.
Vocabulary lists containing injurious
Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (Excerpt 3)
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Example Sentences
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Why Rag-Time Is Injurious Do you believe the playing of the modern rag-time piece to be actually hurtful to the student?
From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef
And when this is said, all is said to his commendation, being otherwise neither good for Church nor State, Soveraign nor Subjects; Covetous, Ambitious, Rebellious, Injurious.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur
Injurious copper, in thy teeth I hurl the lie.
From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard
Report, being a revised and enlarged edition of Bulletin No. 7, on Insects Injurious to Forest and Shade Trees.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.
Injurious upstart: if by Hecuba Thou pointest darkly at my lovely cousin, Know that she is to me, and I to her, What never canst thou be.
From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard
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