poisonous

poisonous

adjective

Definition of POISONOUS

containing or contaminated with a substance capable of injuring or killing a living thing <some evil person was leaving out poisonous meat for neighborhood dogs to eat>

Synonyms envenomed, poison, poisoned, toxic, venomous

Related Words contagious, infectious, infective, pathogenic, pestilent, pestilential; baneful, deleterious, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malignant, nocuous, noxious, virulent; unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome; calamitous, deadly, fatal, fell, lethal, murderous

Near Antonyms beneficial, curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome; benign, harmless, innocuous, inoffensive; nonfatal, nonlethal

Antonyms nonpoisonous, nontoxic, nonvenomous