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in·ju·ri·ous
 injurious
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- pronunciation:
- ihn
ju
ri
 s
[or]
ihn
juh
ri
s
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
tending to cause damage; harmful; hurtful.
- synonyms:
- damaging, deleterious, harmful, hurtful
- antonyms:
- benign
- similar words:
- adverse, bad, baneful, destructive, detrimental, disastrous, fell, inimical, insalubrious, malign, malignant, noxious, pernicious, ruinous, toxic, unfavorable, virulent
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| definition 2: |
offensive or slanderous.
- synonyms:
- calumnious, damaging, defamatory, offensive, slanderous
- similar words:
- abusive, corrosive, cutting, deleterious, derogatory, destructive, detrimental, hurtful, inimical, libelous, maleficent, malign, malignant, noxious, prejudicial, ruinous, scurrilous, vicious, wrongful
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| related words: |
hard, ill, mischievous, noisome, scandalous, unhealthy |
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| derivations: |
injuriously (adv.), injuriousness (n.) |
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