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injurious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of injurious

causing or capable of causing harm

inaccurate news reports are injurious to the public's faith in the media

Synonyms of injurious

adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked

Words Related to injurious

hostile, inimical, unfriendly

contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous

insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening

hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound

nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome

destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous

Near Antonyms of injurious

advantageous, beneficial, useful

favorable, good, propitious

curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome

noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous

Antonyms of injurious

anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe

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