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Definition: Injurious |
InjuriousAdjective1. Harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives". 2. Tending to cause great harm. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "injurious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Injurious \In*ju"ri*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression injuriousus, injurius; compare to French injurieux. See Injury.]. (references) |
Synonyms: InjuriousSynonyms: deleterious (adj), evil (adj), harmful (adj), hurtful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inexpedience | Adjective: hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful; injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome; prejudicial; disserviceable, disadvantageous; wide-wasting. |
Wrong | Adjective: wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable, unequitable; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious, tortious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Injurious |
| Specialty definitions using "injurious": Accidents, Radiation, Alien Species Prevention and Enforcement Act of 1992, antibiosis ♦ Benbow ♦ Controversy ♦ Dangerous Behavior, Dying Sayings ♦ Eye Protective Devices ♦ Lance ♦ MAIL CENSOR, Metalogicus ♦ Neurogenic Inflammation, noxious gas ♦ radioactive dusts, righteousness ♦ Section 201 ♦ Trade Act of 1974 ♦ Wayleaves. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "injurious": malfeasance. (references) |
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Books | |
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 | [Insects- Injurious & Beneficial: Mosquitoes]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Insects - Injurious & Beneficial]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Plant quarantine inspectors examining baggage from Mexico for injurious insects. Glendale Airport, California. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Gelasius I | The toleration of heretics is more injurious than the devastation of the provinces by the barbarians. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | He that would have been insolent and injurious in the woods of America, would not probably be much better in a throne; where perhaps learning and religion shall be found out to justify all that he shall do to his subjects, and the sword presently silence all those that dare question it: for what the protection of absolute monarchy is, what kind of fathers of their countries it makes princes to be and to what a degree of happiness and security it carries civil society, where this sort of government is grown to perfection, he that will look into the late relation of Ceylon, may easily see. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Until the evacuation is completed they will abstain from all requisitions in money or in kind and from all measures injurious to the economic interests of the country. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The fever was over, and Emma could harbour little fear of the pulse being quickened again by injurious courtesy |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Cloisters, although beneficial in the first training of modern civilisation, cramped its growth, and are injurious to its development |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I got down into the canoe, while the Dutchman standing upon the deck, loaded me with all the curses and injurious terms his language could afford |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Hypocapnia makes the blood more basic or alkaline which is also injurious to the cells. (references) | |
Importantly, the animals still responded to acute, that is, normal, pain. This is a critical finding as it is important to retain the body's ability to detect potentially injurious stimuli. (references) | ||
Business | However, these products are subject to the Food Safety Act of 1990 (the “Food Safety Act”), which makes it an offense to sell a product that is injurious to health; unfit for human consumption; not of a nature, substance, or quality demanded; or falsely or misleadingly described or labeled. (references) | |
Trade | Bahrain | These include irradiated food products; weapons, except under special license; pornography and materials considered salacious; wild animals; radio-controlled model airplanes; children's toys containing methyl chloride and other articles declared injurious by the Ministry of Health; and foodstuffs and sweets containing cyclamates. (references) |
Women | Ghana | There are several traditional discriminatory practices that are injurious to the health and development of young girls. (references) |
Worker Rights | Tanzania | The law prohibits young persons from employment in any occupation that is injurious to health and that is dangerous or otherwise unsuitable. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries, but it appears to have been imperfectly expounded. An example of this faulty exposition is found in the only extant sermon of the pious Bishop Rowley, a characteristic passage from which is here given: "Now righteousness consisteth not merely in a holy state of mind, nor yet in performance of religious rites and obedience to the letter of the law. It is not enough that one be pious and just: one must see to it that others also are in the same state; and to this end compulsion is a proper means. Forasmuch as my injustice may work ill to another, so by his injustice may evil be wrought upon still another, the which it is as manifestly my duty to estop as to forestall mine own tort. Wherefore if I would be righteous I am bound to restrain my neighbor, by force if needful, in all those injurious enterprises from which, through a better disposition and by the help of Heaven, I do myself restrain." |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | On none can delay be more injurious or an economy of time more valuable. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | The greater part of the cruisers whose depredations have been most injurious have been built and some of them partially equipped in the United States. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Although this practice may from its nature be considered temporary or contingent, it is not on that account less injurious in its effects. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Time and experience have proved that the abode of the native Indian within their limits is dangerous to their peace and injurious to himself. |
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| "Injurious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Injurious" is used about 91 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 91 | 34,491 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "injurious": be injurious to. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "injurious": non-injurious. | |
Containing "injurious": Self-Injurious Behavior. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
self injurious behavior | 19 |
injurious | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "injurious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i padrejtë (foul, inequitable, iniquitous, inofficious, jug-handled, one sided, partial, unfair, unjust, wrong, wrongful), i dëmshëm (baneful, damnific, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, malefic, maleficent, malign, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, unwholesome), dëmtues (defector, deleterious, detrimental, enemy, evil, harmful, pernicious). (various references) | |
Arabic | متلف (damaging, destructive, detrimental, noxious, ruinous, wrecking), مؤذ (annoying, bad, baleful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, maleficent, malevolent, malign, mischievous, nasty, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, unwholesome, verminous, wicked), ضار (detrimental, felled, ferocious, fierce, hurtful, impish, malign, malignant, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pest, poisonous, predatory, prejudicial, rabid, rapacious, ravenous, savage, set, sharp, truculent, unhealthy, unwholesome, vicious), جارح (acrid, cutting, offensive, painful, predatory, wounding). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ругателен (invasive, maledictory, railing, vituperative), който уврежда, който ощетява, клеветнически (calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, libellous, scandalous, slanderous, wrongful), вреден (adverse, bad, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, ill, inimical, maleficent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, prejudicial), обиден (abusive, aggrieved, huffy, injured, insulted, invasive, invidious, offensive, opprobrious, pained, resentful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 有害 (harmful). (various references) | |
Czech | urážlivý (abusive, contumelious, huffish, huffy, hurtful, invective, obnoxious, offensive, outrageous, petulant, shocking, touchy), škodlivý (bad, damaging, derogatory, detrimental, harmful, malign, nocent, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, pernicious, prejudicial). (various references) | |
Danish | skadevirkning af ukrudt (injurious effect of weeds), skadelig plante (injurious plant, noxious plant), konvention om unødigt skadevoldende vaben (Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects). (various references) | |
Dutch | Verdrag inzake het verbod of de beperking van het gebruik van bepaalde conventionele wapens die geacht kunnen worden buitensporig leed te veroorzaken of een niet-onderscheidende werking te hebben (Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects), Verdrag inzake het verbod of de beperking van het gebruik van bepaalde conventionele wapens die geacht kunnen worden buitensporig leed te veroorzaken of een niet onderscheidende werking te hebben (Convention on prohibitions or restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects), schadelijke werking (detrimental effect, harmful effect, injurious action, noxious effect), schadelijke insekten (injurious insects, insect pests), schade door onkruid (injurious effect of weeds), Dubieuze-Wapensverdrag (Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects), Conventionele-Wapensverdrag (Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects). (various references) | |
Farsi | مضر (Adverse, Bad, Baneful, Derogatory, Evil, Foe, Harmful, Inadvisable, Inimical, Insanitary, Nocuous, Noxious, Obnoxious, Pernicious, Unwholesome), اسیب رسان (Deleterious). (various references) | |
Finnish | vahingollinen (detrimental, harmful, noxious), turmiollinen (destructive, harmful, noxious, pernicious, ruinous), haitallinen (deleterious, detrimental, harmful, noxious). (various references) | |
French | injurieux (insulting), préjudiciable, offensant (insulting), nuisible. (various references) | |
German | schädlich (harmful, noxious, baneful, detrimental, inimical, malignly, mischievous, noxiously, pernicious). (various references) | |
Greek | βλαβερόσ (deleterious, harmful, hurtful, maleficent, malign, noisome, noxious), επιβλαβήσ (damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, maleficent, noxious), επιζήμιοσ (damaging, detrimental, malign, prejudicial). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזיק (detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, malign, mischievous, noxious, prejudicial, unwholesome), פוגע (derogatory, hurtful, invidious, prejudicial, scathing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ártalmas (deleterious, harmful, malign, miasmatic, noxious, pestilent). (various references) | |
Italian | nocivo (harmful, adverse), lesivo (damaging), dannoso (detrimental, harmful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 害鳥 (injurious bird, vermin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がいちょう (injurious bird, Tax Commission, vermin). (various references) | |
Korean | 해가 되는. (various references) | |
Manx | skielleydagh (deleterious, malefic, nocuous), skiellagh (mischievous), loghtalagh, gortagh (beggarly, chary, cheese-paring, close-fisted, frugal, grudging, hurt, hurtful, illiberal, meagre, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, pinching, scant, scanty, skimpy, stingy), aggairagh (aggressor, violator, wrong, wrongdoer). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skadelig (detrimental, harmful), krenkende. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | injuriousay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | injurioso (contumelious, invective, libellous, opprobrious, outrageous, unparliamentary, vituperative), infamante (opprobrious), prejudicial (adverse, harmful), ofensivo (offensive), nocivo (harmful). (various references) | |
Romanian | insultãtor (abusive, hurtful, insulting, reproachfully), injust (unfair, unjust), injurios (abusing, insulting, reproachful, scurrilous, vituperative), vãtãmãtor (baleful, baneful, cankerous, deleterious, harmful, maleficent, mischievous, noisome, noxious), ofensator (abusive, insulter, invidious, obloquious, offensive, offensively, vexatious), nedrept (foully, iniquitous, inofficious, perverse, undue, unfair, unjust, unlawful, wicked, wrong, wrongful), dãunãtor (bad, baleful, evil, hurtful, maleficent, malign, mischievous, noisome, pest, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicially, sinister), calomnios (backbiting, defamatory, slanderous). (various references) | |
Russian | вредный (deleterious, harmful, noisome, noxious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | štetan (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, maleficent, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial). (various references) | |
Spanish | injurioso (abusive, insulting, invective, offensive, scurrilous). (various references) | |
Swedish | skadlig (deleterious, harmful, noisome, noxious). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งเป็นอันตราย (hazardous, noxious). (various references) | |
Turkish | incitici (galling, hurtful, impolite, offending, stinging), zararlı (baleful, baneful, corruptive, deleterious, derogatory, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, insalubrious, malefic, maleficent, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicial, unhealthy, unwholesome), onur kırıcı (degrading, discreditable, dishonourable, infra dig, infradig, insulting), kırıcı (breaker, cutting, disobliging, galling, harsh, invidious, offending, scathing, scorching, shocking, stinging, unkind). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шкідливий (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cankerous, damnific, deleterious, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, insanitary, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, sickly, unhealthy, wrongful), образливий (abusive, affronting, affrontive, contumelious, humiliating, insulting, mortifying, obloquious, obscene, offending, offensive, opprobrious, ornery, outrageous, pettish, resentful, slanderous, touchy, umbrageous), несправедливий (inequitable, iniquitous, one sided, unfair, unjust, unrighteous, wrong). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | làm hại thoá mạ, có hại (damaging, deleterious, deteriorative, detrimental, harmful, hurtful). (various references) | |
Welsh | niweidiol (harmful). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adversarii, adversariis, adversario, adversariorum, adversarios, adversarium, adversarius, nocens, nociva, nocui, noxius, pestifer. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "injurious": injuriously, injuriousness, injuriousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Injurious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: injurios, injurlous, inujurious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "injurious" (pronounced i'njuh"rēus) |
| 5 | -uh" r ē u s | curious, furious, spurious. |
| 4 | -r ē u s | deleterious, delirious, denarius, glorious, gregarious, hilarious, illustrious, imperious, industrious, inglorious, laborious, lugubrious, meritorious, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, Sartorius, serious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous. |
| 3 | -ē u s | acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, fastidious, felonious, gaseous, harmonious, hideous, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, impervious, insidious, instantaneous, invidious, lascivious, luxurious, melodious, miscellaneous, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, percutaneous, previous, punctilious, radius, sanctimonious, simultaneous, spontaneous, studious, supercilious, tedious, unceremonious. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-j-n-o-r-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: juniors, ruinous, urinous. | |
-3 letters: junior. | |
-4 letters: irons, joins, noirs, noris, ornis, rosin, ruins. | |
-5 letters: inro, ions, iris, iron, jins, join, nisi, noir, nori, nous, onus, ours, rins, ruin, runs, sori, sorn, sour, urns, urus. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-j-n-o-r-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: injuriously. | |
+4 letters: injuriousness. | |
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