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Word Meanings - POISONOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious. Shak. -- Poi"son*ous*ly, adv. -- Poi"son*ous*ness, n.

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  • MALIGNANT
    Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of
  • FATALNESS
    , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
  • SLANDEROUS
    1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
  • FATALISTIC
    Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
  • DESTRUCTIVENESS
    The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.
  • FATALITY
    1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
  • VIRULENT
    1. Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury. A contagious disorder rendered more virulent by uncleanness. Sir W. Scott. 2. Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.
  • LETHAL
    One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.
  • MALIGNANTLY
    In a malignant manner.
  • VENOMOUS
    Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects. 3. Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer. Venomous snake , any serpent which has poison glands and fangs,
  • INJURIOUS
    1. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. Milton. Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute from us, we were free. Shak. 2. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health,
  • NOXIOUS
    1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. Too frequent an appearance in places of public
  • DESTRUCTIVELY
    In a destructive manner.
  • FATALISM
    The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
  • INJURIOUSNESS
    The quality of being injurious or hurtful; harmfulness; injury.
  • VIRULENTED
    Made virulent; poisoned.
  • VIRULENTLY
    In a virulent manner.
  • MORTALITY
    1. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew. 2. Human life; the life of a mortal being. From this instant There 's nothing serious
  • MORTAL
    fr. moriri 8die; akin to E. murder. See Murder, and cf. Filemot, Mere 1. Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal. 2. Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a
  • DEADLY
    1. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound. 2. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. Thy assailant is
  • OBNOXIOUS
    1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton.
  • UNDEADLY
    Not subject to death; immortal. -- Un*dead"li*ness, n. Wyclif.
  • IMMORTALIST
    One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. Jer. Taylor.
  • IMMORTAL
    1. Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance. Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. 1 Tim. i. 17. For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal
  • IMMORTALIZE
    1. To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke. 2. To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame. Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his quilty name. T. Dawes.
  • NONMALIGNANT
    Not malignant, as a disease.
  • INNOXIOUS
    1. Free from hurtful qualities or effects; harmless. "Innoxious flames." Sir K. Digby. 2. Free from crime; pure; innocent. Pope. -- In*nox`ious*ly, adv. -- In*nox"ious*ness, n.

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