Injurious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=ju=ri=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

Injurious, a. [L. injuriousus, injurius; cf. F. injurieux. See Injury.].

•  Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

  "Till the injurious Roman did extort
  This tribute from us, we were free."  [1913 Webster]
•  Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit, reputation, property, etc.  [1913 Webster]

  "Without being injurious to the memory of our English Pindar."

Syn. -- Harmful; hurtful; pernicious; mischievous; baneful; deleterious; noxious; ruinous; detrimental.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Injurious, adj.
1 hurtful.
2 (of language) insulting; libellous.
3 wrongful.

Derivative

injuriously adv. injuriousness n.

Etymology

ME f. F injurieux or L injuriosus (as INJURY)

THESAURUS

Injurious

abusive, adverse, bad, bad for, baleful, baneful, calumnious, contaminated, contemptuous, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, defamatory, deleterious, deprecatory, derogatory, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disparaging, disserviceable, distressing, eroding, erosive, evil, foul, harmful, harsh, hurtful, insalubrious, insanitary, insulting, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, morbific, noisome, noxious, offensive, ominous, pathogenic, peccant, pernicious, pestiferous, poisonous, polluted, prejudicial, ruinous, scandalous, scatheful, scornful, scurrilous, septic, slanderous, tainted, toxic, unadvantageous, unfavorable, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unprofitable, unrewarding, unsanitary, unwholesome, useless, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, worthless

ROGET THESAURUS

Injurious

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.

Wrong

N wrong, what ought not to be, what should not be, malum in se, unreasonableness, grievance, shame, injustice, tort, unfairness, iniquity, foul play, partiality, leaning, bias, favor, favoritism, nepotism, party spirit, partisanship, bigotry, undueness, wrongdoing (vice), unlawfulness, robbing Peter to pay Paul, the wolf and the lamb, vice, a custom more honored in the breach than the obser, wrong, wrongful, bad, too bad, unjust, unfair, inequitable, unequitable, unequal, partial, one-sided, injurious, tortious, objectionable, unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable, improper, unfit, unjustified, illegal, iniquitous, immoral, in the wrong, in the wrong box, wrongly, it will not do.