injurious

[ in-joor-ee-uhs ]

adjective

1. harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect:

   injurious eating habits.

   Synonyms: ruinous, destructive, baneful, pernicious, deleterious, damaging

   Antonyms: beneficial

2. doing or involving injury or wrong, as to another:

   injurious behavior.

   Synonyms: prejudicial, wrongful, unjust, inequitable

3. insulting; abusive; defamatory; offensive:

   an injurious statement.

   Synonyms: slanderous, libelous, derogatory

   Antonyms: complimentary

injurious

/ ɪnˈdʒʊərɪəs /

adjective

1. causing damage or harm; deleterious; hurtful
2. abusive, slanderous, or libellous

Derived Forms

• inˈjuriousness, noun
• inˈjuriously, adverb

Other Words From

• in·juri·ous·ly adverb
• in·juri·ous·ness noun
• nonin·juri·ous adjective
• nonin·juri·ous·ly adverb
• nonin·juri·ous·ness noun
• prein·juri·ous adjective
• quasi-in·juri·ous adjective
• quasi-in·juri·ous·ly adverb
• self-in·juri·ous adjective
• unin·juri·ous adjective
• unin·juri·ous·ly adverb
• unin·juri·ous·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of injurious¹

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin injūrius or injūriōsus. See injury, -ous

Example Sentences

For me, it becomes what part of the model is much more injurious to respondents and to outcomes.

From MIT Technology Review

Each time, rather than deal with the deeper problems that leave schools vulnerable to teacher shortages, administrators and school boards opt for short-term bandages that have proved inefficient, ineffective and injurious.

From Washington Post

Implying otherwise is practically and intellectually incorrect, and injurious to the public who need reliable power.

From Washington Post

Why should speech be exempt from public welfare concerns when its social costs can be even more injurious?

From The Daily Beast

Is calling for the eradication of Israel—subtly or overtly—potentially injurious?

From The Daily Beast

Certainly, those policies are extreme and would be deeply injurious to middle-class and poorer Americans should they be enacted.

From The Daily Beast

He is at risk of being pulled into that most dangerous of all places, the injurious world of celebrity.

From The Daily Beast

To the extent that his wins prove injurious, future Republican Congresses and administrations will struggle to undo them.

From The Daily Beast

These fish are very tempting and delicate, and are not so injurious as shellfish are apt to be.

From Project Gutenberg

The Paraguayans consider excessive smoking of other tobacco as injurious but not of the delicate flavored leaf of Paraguay.

From Project Gutenberg

The vow is nothing; yea, worse than nothing; injurious to those who make it, and dishonouring to God, if it be not performed.

From Project Gutenberg

Others, again, maintain that it is positively injurious to the general health of the patient.

From Project Gutenberg

No one can argue that this useless and, to some extent, injurious condition is a designed result of creation.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• adverse
• damaging
• destructive
• detrimental
• disadvantageous
• harmful
• insulting
• noxious
• pernicious
• poisonous
• prejudicial
• ruinous
• slanderous
• unhealthy