Word Meanings - NOCUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hurtful; noxious. -- Noc"u*ous*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NOCUOUS)

• Noisome
• Hurtful
• harmful
• nocuous
• pestilential

Related words: (words related to NOCUOUS)

• HURTFUL
  Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome;
• HARMFUL
  Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. " Most harmful hazards." Strype. --Harm"ful*ly, adv. -- Harm"ful*ness, n.
• PESTILENTIALLY
  Pestilently.
• PESTILENTIAL
  1. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. "Sends the pestilential vapors." Longfellow. 2. Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin. Jer. Taylor.
• NOISOME
  1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome pestilence." Ps. xci. 3. 2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul breath is noisome." Shak.
• NOCUOUS
  Hurtful; noxious. -- Noc"u*ous*ly, adv.
• INNOCUOUS
  Harmless; producing no ill effect; innocent. A patient, innocuous, innocent man. Burton. -- In*noc"u*ous*ly, adv. -- In*noc"u*ous*ness, n. Where the salt sea innocuously breaks. Wordsworth.
• CHARMFUL
  Abounding with charms. "His charmful lyre." Cowley.