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injurious Definition

in·ju·ri·ous (in jo̵orē əs)

adjective

  1. injuring or likely to cause injury; harmful
  2. offensive or abusive; slanderous or libelous

Etymology: LME iniuryous < MFr injurieux < L injuriosus

injurious Related Forms
in·ju·ri·ously adverb in·ju·ri·ous·ness noun
injurious Synonyms

injurious

modif.

  1. Harmful

    detrimental, damaging, deleterious; see dangerous 1, 2, deadly 1, harmful, poisonous.

  2. Slanderous

    abusive, insulting, libelous, defamatory; see insulting, opprobrious 1.

injurious Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • otherwise: Auckland: Auckland Regional Council Cleland JB ( 1914 ) Plants, including fungi, poisonous or otherwise injurious to man in Australia.
  • potentially: The ref simply avoided carding players until they fouled in a cynical and at least potentially injurious way.
  • very: Only the first error is very injurious, and I dare say a clever reader will notice what is wrong.
  • so: Provision was made for readily supplying the accidental gaps which were so injurious to the phalanx.
  • not: The materials had to be from sustainable sources and not injurious to the environment.
  • particularly: Lifestyle changes that may be helpful Smoking is particularly injurious for people with hypertension.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • render: What is meant by rendering food injurious to health?
  • make: Such disinformation would constitute a loss to the victim, in that it might cause the agent to make decisions injurious to itself.

Modifies a noun

  • affection: Compensation for injurious affection to neighboring land etc 16.
  • weed: The Act does not make it an offense to permit injurious weeds to grow on land.
  • feather: However, hygiene was much improved, parasitic diseases virtually disappeared, and injurious feather pecking and cannibalism were reduced.
  • consequence: Now it is a wholly different thing to be truthful from duty and to be so from apprehension of injurious consequences.
  • effect: A lesson on the injurious effects of smoking was afterward given " .
  • influence: To these painful consequences of the defeats endured were added the injurious influences of the emigration.

Used with adjective complement

  • render: Food premises are governed by numerous regulations to ensure that all food intended for human consumption is not rendered injurious to health.
  • prove: Ought I not to have guessed that his curiosity would sooner or later prove injurious to us?
  • become: What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious.
injurious Quotes

The effect of trade and commerce with respect to most civilized states is to send out of their countries what the poor, that is, the great mass of mankind, have occasion for, and to bring back, in return, what is consumed almost wholly bya small part of those nations, viz. the rich. Hence it appears that the greater part of manufactures, trade and commerce is highly injurious to the poor as being the chief means of depriving them of the necessaries of life.

—Hall, Charles

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