injurious
Meaning of injurious
adjective
- causing or likely to cause damage or harm.
food which is injurious to health
late Middle English: from French injurieux or Latin injuriosus, from injuria ‘a wrong’ (see injury).
Information about injurious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of injurious
in-ju-ri-ous
- It consists of 4 syllables and 9 chars.
- injurious is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
injurious synonyms
Meaning deleterious:
Meaning evil:
Meaning causing physical damage:
Meaning tending to cause harm:
Meaning able or likely to cause harm or injury:
Meaning involving or creating unfavourable circumstances that reduce the chances of success or effectiveness:
Meaning expressing or showing a lack of approval or support:
Meaning not wanted or desirable because harmful, objectionable, or unpleasant:
Meaning preventing success or development; harmful; unfavourable:
Meaning tending to obstruct or harm:
Meaning harmful to health:
Meaning not characterized by or conducive to health or moral well-being:
Meaning causing great and irreparable damage:
Meaning having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way:
Meaning evil in nature or effect; malevolent:
Meaning causing harm or destruction, especially by supernatural means:
Translation of injurious
- German: beleidigend, verleumderisch, schädlich, abträglich
- Italian: diffamatorio
- Spanish: difamatorio, difamatoria, nocivo, pernicioso, perniciosa, nociva, perjudicial
- French: diffamatoire, pernicieux, nocif, préjudiciable, nuisible, néfaste
Words that rhyme with injurious
aerobious, amphibious, anaerobious, antiscabious, dubious, helobious, hematobious, indubious, microbious, nonamphibious, rabious, rubious, scabious, stibious, superbious, superdubious, triphibious, undubious, Delicious, Procious, acinacious, ametoecious, androdioecious, andromonoecious, appendicious, artificious, astucious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, autecious, autoecious, avaricious, bibacious, bodacious, boldacious, bowdacious, capacious, capricious, cilicious, coconscious, cogracious, conconscious, conscious, contumacious, curvacious, delicious, dicacious, diecious, dioecious
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