Antonyms for venomous
ˈvɛn ə məsven·omous

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1. venomousadjective

   Antonyms:
   non-venomous

   Synonyms:
   poisonous, toxic, noxious

2. venomousadjective

   Full of venom.

   The villain tricked him into drinking the venomous concoction.

   Antonyms:
   non-venomous

   Synonyms:
   poisonous, toxic, noxious

3. venomousadjective

   Toxic; poisonous.

   Antonyms:
   non-venomous

   Synonyms:
   poisonous, noxious, toxic

4. venomousadjective

   Noxious; evil.

   Antonyms:
   non-venomous

   Synonyms:
   poisonous, toxic, noxious

5. venomousadjective

   Malignant; spiteful; hateful.

   His attitude toward me is utterly venomous.

   Antonyms:
   non-venomous

   Synonyms:
   poisonous, noxious, toxic

6. venomousadjective

   Producing venom (poison usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging) in glands or accumulating venom from food.

   Do venomous spiders have glands?

   Antonyms:
   non-venomous

   Synonyms:
   poisonous, toxic, noxious

7. venomousadjective

   powerful

   Synonyms:
   noxious, poisonous, toxic

   Antonyms:
   non-venomous

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1. venomous

   Antonyms:
   wholesome, salubrious, genial, flattering, kindly

   Synonyms:
   poisonous, malignant, virulent, slanderous

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1. deadly, venomous, virulentadjective

   extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom

   "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite"

   Antonyms:
   unmalicious, atoxic, nontoxic

   Synonyms:
   virulent, blistering, pestilent, mortal(a), pernicious, sulfurous, mortal, baneful, acerbic, sulphurous, caustic, deathly, lethal, acrid, poisonous, vicious, deadly, acid, vitriolic, bitter, acerb

2. poisonous, venomous, viciousadjective

   marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful

   "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"

   Antonyms:
   nontoxic, atoxic, unmalicious

   Synonyms:
   virulent, toxicant, deplorable, savage, barbarous, reprehensible, fell, criminal, condemnable, roughshod, cruel, poisonous, evil, vicious, deadly, brutal

How to use venomous in a sentence?

1. Kenneth Angielczyk:

   Euchambersia has very distinct, large pits on the side of its face that connect to grooves on the canine teeth via a groove above the tooth row, this combination of features in Euchambersia has been used to hypothesize that it may have been venomous, although again we can't be completely certain of this. The groove in Ichibengops shows some similarities to that in Euchambersia, and because they are fairly closely related, we suggested that something similar may have been going on in Ichibengops.

2. Pippa Canning:

   [He] asked me, ‘if you get bitten by a venomous snake in Australia, do you go to heaven?’ i said ‘Yes,’ and then he went down.

3. Geoff Porter:

   More often than not, when the head of the snake is cut off, a more venomous one grows in its place, that is certainly a possibility here –- and there are no shortage of aspiring jihadis who are likely eager to pick up Belmokhtar's mantle.

4. Greg Neely:

   We studied the biggest, most venomous and scary one, our drug works on the big beast. We don't know yet if it works on other jellyfish, but we know it works on the most-deadly one.

5. Seth Norrholm:

   Back in our ancestral age ... young children learned not to pick up snakes and spiders because they're venomous.

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