What is another word for poisonous?
Synonyms for poisonous
ˈpɔɪ zə nəspoi·sonous
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
poisonous
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, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesomeAntonyms:
advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
poisonous
Synonyms:
venomous, infect ant, vicious, corruptive, vitiative, noxious, baneful, malignant, morbific, peccant, virulent, pestiferous, mephitic, deleteriousAntonyms:
wholesome, genial, beneficial, sanative, invigorative, healthful, innoxious, restorative, remedial, hygeian
Princeton's WordNet
poisonous, toxicantadjective
having the qualities or effects of a poison
Synonyms:
venomous, toxicant, viciousAntonyms:
nontoxic, comestible, atoxic, eatable, unmalicious, ediblepoisonousadjective
not safe to eat
Synonyms:
venomous, toxicant, viciousAntonyms:
atoxic, comestible, unmalicious, edible, nontoxic, eatablepoisonous, venomous, viciousadjective
marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
"poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"
Synonyms:
virulent, toxicant, deplorable, savage, barbarous, reprehensible, fell, venomous, criminal, condemnable, roughshod, cruel, evil, vicious, deadly, brutalAntonyms:
eatable, unmalicious, atoxic, comestible, nontoxic, edible
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#841 | bad | |
#2384 | criminal | |
#3009 | evil | |
#3386 | sam | |
#4538 | fell | |
#6660 | toxic | |
#9200 | deadly | |
#9271 | brutal | |
#9672 | harmful | |
#9718 | foul | |
#9792 | savage | |
#10000 | poison | |
#11289 | cruel | |
#13351 | destructive | |
#15592 | malignant | |
#15992 | vicious | |
#20371 | detrimental | |
#24683 | poisonous | |
#29119 | poisoned | |
#31651 | noxious | |
#42095 | injurious | |
#42256 | mischievous | |
#43797 | virulent | |
#43999 | deleterious | |
#48711 | pernicious | |
#51420 | venomous | |
#54344 | hurtful | |
#55032 | deplorable | |
#58505 | reprehensible | |
#66341 | barbarous | |
#84995 | ruinous | |
#101921 | unwholesome | |
#109528 | toxicant | |
#126547 | roughshod | |
#132519 | baneful | |
#177128 | perverting | |
#196741 | unhealthful | |
#227568 | noisome | |
#264537 | pestilential | |
#290986 | condemnable | |
#299977 | corruptive |
How to use poisonous in a sentence?
You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that!
Every time someone comes up with idea to give you $25 billion, you should say thank you. The DHS press release is over the top. It’s politically poisonous. It’s ridiculous and I’ve long since stopped paying attention to them.
They were flipping them over, making a very distinctive, almost surgical precision cut down the chest. They would even remove the gallbladder outside the body, which contains toxic bile salts. They knew to remove that bit. She added that the rats understood which areas of the toad were poisonous, using their sharp teeth and dextrous hands to eatthe non-toxic parts while leaving the poisonous areas stripped. In the medium-sized toads, as well as eating the heart and liver, they would strip off the toxic skin from one or both legs and eat the non-toxic thigh muscle.
I knew the fish would die because the sea snake is highly poisonous, but I knew the snake would also die from the fish's poison if I just left it there.
British Prime Minister David Cameron:
For all our successes as a multiracial, multifaith democracy, we have to confront a tragic truth that there are people born and raised in this country who don't really identify with Britain -- and feel little or no attachment to other people here, so when groups like ISIL seek to rally our young people to their poisonous cause, it can offer them a sense of belonging that they lack here at home.
Translations for poisonous
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- سميArabic
- ядаві́тыBelarusian
- verinós, tòxicCatalan, Valencian
- jedovatýCzech
- giftigDanish
- toxisch, giftigGerman
- δηλητηριώδηςGreek
- venena, venenigaEsperanto
- ponzoñoso, venenoso, tóxicoSpanish
- myrkyllinenFinnish
- vénéneux, toxique, poisoneuxFrench
- puinnseantaScottish Gaelic
- nieuagh, pyshoonaghManx
- mérgező, mérgesHungarian
- թունաւորArmenian
- 有毒Japanese
- indīgsLatvian
- отровенMacedonian
- giftigDutch
- giftig, skadeligNorwegian
- trującyPolish
- tóxico, venenosoPortuguese
- veninos, otrăvitorRomanian
- ядовитый, токсичныйRussian
- strupenSlovene
- విషపూరితTelugu
- zehirliTurkish
- отру́йнийUkrainian
- venenikVolapük
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