poisonous

Speech parts

1. poisonous - Adjective

2. poisonous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

venomous toxicant dangerous harmful destructive deadly infectious lethal vicious malignant deleterious noxious injurious pernicious toxic
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Antonyms

white beneficent good bactericidal therapeutical medical
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Phrases with the word

poisonous agents poisonous substances poisonous vine poisonous metal poisonous gas poisonous wasteland

Examples

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. Friedrich Nietzsche

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. Thomas Mann

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. Eric Hoffer

The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting. Vietnamese Proverb

An adder with its poisonous fangs taken out is nothing more than a piece of rope. Hindi Proverb

Harsh words hurt more than a poisonous arrow. Nilotic Proverb

Close letter words and terms

poisonlessness poisonlike poisonmonger poisonous agents poisonous compliment poisonous element