Adjective
noxious (comparative more noxious, superlative most noxious)
- Harmful; injurious.
1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization, Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 1:In the living state, the body is observed to […] reject what is noxious; [...]
2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:[...] many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.
Etymologically related to
noxia (“hurt, injury, damage”)
Collocations
with nouns
- noxious substance
- noxious chemical
- noxious fumes
- noxious gas
- noxious odor
- noxious plant
- noxious weed
- noxious animal
- noxious stimulus
- noxious stimulation
Translations
harmful
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: nocivu (ast) m, dañible (ast) m or f
- Basque: kaltegarri (eu)
- Bulgarian: вреден (bg) (vreden), нездравословен (bg) (nezdravosloven)
- Catalan: nociu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Corsican: nucivu m
- Estonian: kahjur-
- Finnish: vahingollinen (fi), haitallinen (fi), myrkyllinen (fi)
- French: nocif (fr) m
- Friulian: nocîf
- Galician: nocivo m, daniño m
- German: Schad- (de), schädlich (de)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: kártékony (hu), ártalmas (hu)
- Italian: insalubre (it), nocivo (it), malsano (it)
- Japanese: 有毒な (ゆうどくな, yūdokuna)
- Korean: 유해한 (yuhaehan)
- Latin: noxius m
- Latvian: kaitīgs
- Maori: orotā
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: szkodliwy (pl), niezdrowy (pl)
- Portuguese: nocivo (pt) m, daninho (pt) m
- Romanian: nociv (ro) m or n, vătămător (ro) m or n, nesănătos (ro) m or n
- Russian: ядови́тый (ru) (jadovítyj), вре́дный (ru) (vrédnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ште̏тан m
- Roman: štȅtan (sh) m
- Spanish: nocivo (es) m, daniño m
- Turkish: zararlı (tr)
- Vietnamese: độc hại (vi)
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Further reading
- “noxious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “noxious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “noxious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “noxious”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.