Synonyms for injurious
ɪnˈdʒʊər i əsin·ju·ri·ous

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1. injuriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   slanderous, libelous, defamatory, harmful

2. injuriousadjective

   causing physical harm or injury; harmful

   Synonyms:
   libelous, slanderous, defamatory, harmful

3. injuriousadjective

   causing harm to one's reputation; slanderous, libelous, invidious

   Synonyms:
   slanderous, harmful, defamatory, libelous

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1. injurious

   Pernicious (Latin per, through, and neco, kill) signifies having the power of destroying or injuring, tending to hurt or kill. Pernicious is stronger than injurious; that which is injurious is capable of doing harm; that which is pernicious is likely to be destructive. Noxious (Latin noceo, hurt) is a stronger word than noisome, as referring to that which is injurious or destructive. Noisome now always denotes that which is extremely disagreeable or disgusting, especially to the sense of smell; as, the noisome stench proclaimed the presence of noxious gases.

   Synonyms:
   bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

   Antonyms:
   advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome

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1. injurious

   Synonyms:
   hurtful, deleterious, prejudicial, noxious, detrimental, baleful, pernicious, wrongful, mischievous, damaging, baneful

   Antonyms:
   helpful, beneficial, advantageous

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1. deleterious, hurtful, injuriousadjective

   harmful to living things

   "deleterious chemical additives"

   Synonyms:
   hurtful, deleterious

   Antonyms:
   harmless

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1. injuriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   wrongful, iniquitous, unjust, inequitable

2. injuriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   hurtful, detrimental, prejudicial, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, deadly, baneful, mischievous, damaging, disadvantageous, destructive, ruinous, fatal

3. injuriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   contumelious, detractory

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1. injuriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   hurtful, harmful, detrimental, pernicious, deleterious, baneful, noxious, maleficent, prejudicial, defamatory, derogatory, detractory

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1. List of paraphrases for "injurious":

   harmful, damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, adverse, noxious, deleterious

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How to use injurious in a sentence?

1. Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782):

   The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

2. John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.:

   Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

3. Frederick Saunders:

   Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

4. Thomas Jefferson:

   The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.

5. Thomas Jefferson:

   The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.