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RELATED WORDS : fruit of the poisonous tree poisonous nightshade poisonous parasol poisonous plant poisonous substance

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective poisonous has 3 senses

• poisonous(s = adj.all) toxicant - having the qualities or effects of a poison; Array
Derived form noun poison₂

• poisonous(s = adj.all) Array - not safe to eat; Array
Derived form noun poison₁

• poisonous(s = adj.all) venomous, vicious - marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"
Derived form noun poison₂

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THESAURUS

poisonous

bad, baleful, baneful, barfy, brackish, catching, cloying, communicable, contagious, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dangerous, deadly, defamatory, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, diabolical, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, envenomed, evil, fatal, fetid, foul, fulsome, harmful, high, hurtful, icky, infectious, infective, injurious, lethal, maggoty, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, mortal, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, offensive, ominous, overripe, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poison, prejudicial, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rotten, scatheful, septic, sickening, slanderous, spoiled, stinking, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, vile, virulent, vomity, weevily, yucky

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Badness

N badness, hurtfulness, virulence, evil doer, bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind, hoodoo, Jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side, malignity, malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness, peccancy, abomination, painfulness, pestilence, guilt, depravity, 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, unlucky, sinister, obnoxious, untoward, disastrous, oppressive, burdensome, onerous, malign, corrupting &c (corrupt), virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive, inauspicious, bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful, horrid, horrible, dire, rank, peccant, foul, fulsome, rotten, rotten at the core, vile, base, villainous, mean, injured, deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent, below par, illcontrived, ill-conditioned, wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, pitiable, woeful, evil, wrong, depraved, shocking, reprehensible, hateful, hateful as a toad, abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded, damned, damnable, infernal, diabolic, unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent, irremediable, badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches, bad is the best: the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged.

Insalubrity

N insalubrity, unhealthiness, nonnaturals, plague spot, malaria, death in the pot, contagion, toxicity, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome, noxious, noisome, morbific, morbiferous, mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious, pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential, virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic, narcotic, contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic, epizootic, innutritious, indigestible, ungenial, uncongenial, deadly.

Bane

N bane, curse, evil, hurtfulness, painfulness, scourge, damnosa hereditas, white elephant, sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle, poison, toxin, teratogen, leaven, virus venom, arsenic, antimony, tartar emetic, strychnine, nicotine, miasma, miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas, pest, Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid, bichloride of mercury, carbonic acid, carbonic gas, choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp, hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide, marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane, hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite, banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish, Upas tree, Toxline (online), rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew, dry rot, canker, cankerworm, cancer, torpedo, viper, demon, toxicology, baneful, poisonous, phr, bibere venenum in auro, Contingent Subservience.

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