Poisonous
['pɒɪzənəs] or ['pɔɪzənəs]
Definition
(adj.) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; 'poisonous hate'; 'venomous criticism'; 'vicious gossip' .
(adj.) not safe to eat .
(adj.) having the qualities or effects of a poison .
Checked by Andrew--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Venomous, infect_ant, vicious, corruptive, vitiative, noxious, baneful,malignant, morbific, peccant, virulent, pestiferous, mephitic, deleterious
ANT:Wholesome, genial, beneficial, sanative, invigorative, healthful, innoxious,restorative, remedial, hygeian
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Examples
- Water gas has neither the illuminating nor the heating qualities of coal gas, and it is also much more poisonous. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was poisonous to me to see him in the town, for I very well knew why he had come there. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A clean room, a hot dish for dinner, and a bottle of not absolutely poisonous wine, are all I want tonight. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- If you gave up your highly-spiced dishes, your strong wines, your late hours, your breathing of poisonous air, you would be as healthy as I am. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Carbon dioxide is not poisonous, but it cuts off the supply of oxygen, just as water cuts it off from a drowning man. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is not poisonous; but one would die if surrounded by nitrogen alone, just as one would die if surrounded by water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- How does the Poisonous Tarantula Live? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The exultation in his voice was like a sweetish, poisonous drug to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was alive with lions and leopards and poisonous snakes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Creosote is poisonous to insects and many small animals, and thus acts as a preservation not only against the elements but against animal life as well. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They called him a liar and a poisonous monster. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Further, water assists in the removal of the daily bodily wastes, and thus rids the system of foul and poisonous substances. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, you can hardly call the air of Roylands poisonous, said Maurice indolently. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- From the open door there reeked a horrible poisonous exhalation which set us gasping and coughing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He is poisonous now and he would like to see us all destroyed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There is often something poisonous in the air of public rooms, said Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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