injurious
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7.0
- adjective
- /ɪnˈdʒʊəriəs/
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lesivo
- Cigarette smoking is injurious to health.
- injurious behavior
- injurious effects
- injurious to health
They've written a piece about the Jews who advocate for causes that are directly injurious to Jews.
- They've written a piece about the Jews who advocate for causes that are directly injurious to Jews.
- When any criminal or injurious actions excite that passion, hatred or vengeance, it is only by their relation to the person or connection with him.
- And hurt is the blabberon injury or the injurious is the opposite of the useful.
- If in, in a survival situation, you know, probably the, the, the meat would, you know, small amounts would, would be less injurious.
- How many men from having been sinners, have afterward become righteous, from being injurious, have become good, from being wicked, have become temperate?
Examples
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That could prove injurious to his health.
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The likelihood of a seriously injurious fall also varied by personal characteristics, activity, and location.
Academic text (2012) -
The man has signed a paper not to do anything injurious to the United States of America.
Fiction book (1994) -
Mere alterations in habits which do not appear injurious in themselves seem to have the same effect.
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Nuisance actions allow citizens and government to abate activities believed to be injurious to health, safety, and welfare.
Academic text (1999) -
If ya don't, well, what with our insistence on protocol... it could prove injurious to our friendship.
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I turned the page and read this: Strickland's injurious calm robbed Stroeve of his self-control.
Fiction book (1999) -
I will follow that system of regimen which I consider best for my patients and abstain from whatever is injurious with purity and holiness while I pass my life and practice my art.
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it is my intent to prove that Luther Heggs did willfully and with full intent concoct and publish a fabrication injurious to the family name of my client, Nicholas Simmons.
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Cigarette smoking is injurious to health.
Synonyms
∞
1.5
Likely to cause harm or injury
∞
1.0
Likely to cause harm or injury
161
2.6
Causing damage to people, animals or things
80
3.1
Likely to cause harm to a person or to their things
9
8.5
Harmful to people, animals, or plants
1
2.9
Causing harm to living things like people or animals
Antonyms
How Harmful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Injurious is related to the everyday words injury and injure, and it comes from the Latin word injuria, which meant 'wrong' or 'harm'. So, something injurious is 'harmful' or likely to cause injury.