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adjective
- 1. causing or likely to cause damage or harm: "food which is injurious to health"
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The meaning of INJURIOUS is inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental. How to use injurious in a sentence. inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental; abusive, defamatory…
adjective. formal uk / ɪnˈdʒʊə.ri.əs / us / ɪnˈdʒʊr.i.əs / Add to word list. harmful: injurious to Too much alcohol is injurious to your health. Synonyms. damaging. deleterious formal. detrimental formal. harmful. prejudicial formal. Opposites. harmless. innocuous. Compare. hurtful. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Injurious definition: harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect. See examples of INJURIOUS used in a sentence.
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.
2 meanings: 1. causing damage or harm; deleterious; hurtful 2. abusive, slanderous, or libellous.... Click for more definitions.
1. Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful: eating habits that are injurious to one's health. 2. Offensive or insulting; hurtful: made injurious statements about his rival. in·ju′ri·ous·ly adv. in·ju′ri·ous·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
INJURIOUS | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Meaning of injurious in English. injurious. adjective. formal us / ɪnˈdʒʊr.i.əs / uk / ɪnˈdʒʊə.ri.əs / Add to word list. harmful: injurious to Too much alcohol is injurious to your health. Synonyms. damaging. deleterious formal. detrimental formal. harmful. prejudicial formal. Opposites.
injurious (to somebody/something) causing or likely to cause harm or damage synonym damaging. injurious to health; injurious effects
Offensive or abusive; slanderous or libelous. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Causing harm to one's reputation; slanderous, libelous, invidious. Wiktionary. Synonyms: calumnious. libelous. defamatory. slanderous. scandalous. invidious. detractive. hurtful. deleterious. noxious. nocuous. malicious. maleficent. harmful. detrimental.
harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
