- injuring or likely to cause injury; harmful
- offensive or abusive; slanderous or libelous
Origin of injurious
Late Middle English iniuryous from Middle French injurieux from Classical Latin injuriosus
adjective
The definition of injurious is something that could cause harm to a person or their reputation, or that is offensive or abusive.
When you make false accusations that someone is a thief and damage his reputation, this is an example of injurious remarks.
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injurious
adjective
- Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful: eating habits that are injurious to one's health.
- Offensive or insulting; hurtful: made injurious statements about his rival.
Related Forms:
- in·ju′ri·ous·ly
adverb
- in·ju′ri·ous·ness
noun
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Adjective
(comparative more injurious, superlative most injurious)
- Causing physical harm or injury; harmful.
- Causing harm to one's reputation; slanderous, libelous, invidious.
Origin
From Anglo-Norman, from Old French enjurius, from Latin eniurosus
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injurious - Medical Definition
adj.
- Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful: eating habits that are injurious to one's health.
- Offensive or insulting; hurtful: made injurious statements about their rivals.
Related Forms:
- in·ju′ri·ous·ly
adv.
- in·ju′ri·ous·ness
n.
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Sentence Examples
- Harris, Insects injurious to Vegetation (Boston, U.S., 2nd ed., 1852); C. L.
- Bourne (24), the poison exuded by the sting has no injurious effect on another scorpion nor on the scorpion itself.
- In return for these privileges the lord was liable to forfeit his rights if he neglected to protect and defend the tenant or did anything injurious to the feudal relation.
- The native methods in vogue in Brazil and Mexico are primitive and often injurious to the tree.
- Whilst objecting to the prevention of the export of wool, he proposes a tax on that export as somewhat less injurious to the interest of growers than the prohibition, whilst it would "afford a sufficient advantage" to the domestic over the foreign manufacturer.
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