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nocuous

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of nocuous

causing or capable of causing harm

Hand washing is one of the easiest ways to help prevent the spread of nocuous germs.

Synonyms of nocuous

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

Words Related to nocuous

hostile, inimical, unfriendly

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

insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening

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

nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome

destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous

Near Antonyms of nocuous

advantageous, beneficial, useful

favorable, good, propitious

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

Antonyms of nocuous

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

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