Definition of noxious in English:

noxious

adjective ˈnɒkʃəsˈnɑkʃəs

Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant.
有害的；有毒的；让人厌恶的
they were overcome by the noxious fumes
他们被有毒烟气熏倒了。
Example sentencesExamples
- What's less well understood is how noxious such projects are for the cities that surround them.
- The courts have experienced problems over the definition of poison or other noxious thing.
- It's an artificial fragrance used in an attempt to cover up the noxious smell of pesticides.
- It is not necessary to prove damage to health from noxious emissions in order to establish a nuisance.
- They fill the air with noxious fumes, besides causing sound pollution.
- His continued presence in government taints it with the noxious smell of cronyism.
- There is also a specific obligation to prevent the emission of noxious or offensive substances into the atmosphere.
- In the past, I used to believe that in a democracy these people should be free to foul the airwaves with their noxious opinions.
- The residents say that even in fine and warm weather they also have to endure the noxious smell of sewage from their drains.
- Luckily I smelled the noxious fumes, ran upstairs and managed to extinguish it.
- More to the point, it involves copious amounts of rubber cement and other noxious solvents.
- Burning glue sent noxious fumes into the night sky in Brentford this week, after a factory caught fire near the Great West Road.
- Visitors have to contend with toxic gases, noxious fumes, and showers of hot ash.
- By vigorously churning the tank every day, she helps the noxious mixture rot and produce the methane that heats her tea.
- The noxious fumes are believed to have been caused by a sulphuric acid-based cleaning agent.
- The closer I got to her room, the stronger I could smell the noxious fumes.
- Narcissism is a noxious mental disease that leads people to grandiose delusions.
- Residents quite rightly complain of flies, noxious odours, dust, seagulls and noise pollution from the site.
- If the fox population is to be controlled, (as it must be) fox hunting is no more noxious than other means of doing this.
- It can remove toxic and noxious gases from sewers and clean the air of vaults and tanks.
Synonyms
poisonous, toxic, deadly, virulent
harmful, dangerous, pernicious, damaging, destructive, environmentally unfriendly
very unpleasant, nasty, disgusting, awful, dreadful, horrible, terrible, vile, revolting, foul, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, appalling, offensive, foul-smelling, evil-smelling, malodorous, fetid, putrid, rancid, unwholesome, unhealthy, insalubrious
informal ghastly, horrid
Northern Irish informal bogging
literary noisome, mephitic
archaic disgustful
rare miasmal, miasmic, nocuous, olid

Derivatives

noxiously

adverb

On the contrary, it is turning even more sharply to the right, embracing the most noxiously reactionary ideologies and relying ever more heavily on the police and military powers of the state.
Example sentencesExamples
- He had a marked aversion to garbage, and this saw him take frequent trips to the dump to rid himself of that noxiously insidious but ever-accumulating stuff.
- Other targets, sorted according to the noxiously specific Nazi taxonomy, were housed elsewhere.
- His personal sadism and the ‘kick’ he gets from exercising this ultimate power was revealed most noxiously in his public mimicking of the plea for clemency by a condemned woman.
- A threatening new creature rises from Japan's sludge-ridden Suruga Bay, feeds on the noxiously fuming smokestacks of Osaka, and sprays an acidic cloud that dissolves human flesh on contact.

noxiousness

noun

The Nobel Prize winner for Medicine Charles Richet attributed this silence to the disgust that arises from noxiousness and the lack of usefulness of human waste.
Example sentencesExamples
- Second, the obvious grounds on which to terminate Churchill are not the stupidity and the noxiousness of his ideas, but his fraudulent claim to be something he isn't.
- Unfortunately, the sort of assistance given by Jupiter isn't likely to remove much noxiousness.
- While that fresh air (called make-up air in HVAC circles) is coming in, thirty years of advancement in home design and energy efficiency is leaking out - just so you can rid yourself of a few cubic feet of noxiousness.

Origin

Late 15th century: from Latin noxius (from noxa 'harm') + -ous.

innocent from Middle English:
Literally meaning ‘not harming’, innocent goes back to Latin in- ‘not’ and nocere ‘to hurt, injure’, which also lies behind nuisance (Late Middle English), noxious (Late Middle English) ‘harmful’, its opposite innocuous (late 16th century), and obnoxious (late 16th century).

Rhymes

obnoxious

Definition of noxious in US English:

noxious

adjectiveˈnɑkʃəsˈnäkSHəs

Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant.
有害的；有毒的；让人厌恶的
they were overcome by the noxious fumes
他们被有毒烟气熏倒了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Luckily I smelled the noxious fumes, ran upstairs and managed to extinguish it.
- It is not necessary to prove damage to health from noxious emissions in order to establish a nuisance.
- Residents quite rightly complain of flies, noxious odours, dust, seagulls and noise pollution from the site.
- His continued presence in government taints it with the noxious smell of cronyism.
- What's less well understood is how noxious such projects are for the cities that surround them.
- The residents say that even in fine and warm weather they also have to endure the noxious smell of sewage from their drains.
- The courts have experienced problems over the definition of poison or other noxious thing.
- There is also a specific obligation to prevent the emission of noxious or offensive substances into the atmosphere.
- By vigorously churning the tank every day, she helps the noxious mixture rot and produce the methane that heats her tea.
- The noxious fumes are believed to have been caused by a sulphuric acid-based cleaning agent.
- The closer I got to her room, the stronger I could smell the noxious fumes.
- Burning glue sent noxious fumes into the night sky in Brentford this week, after a factory caught fire near the Great West Road.
- It's an artificial fragrance used in an attempt to cover up the noxious smell of pesticides.
- It can remove toxic and noxious gases from sewers and clean the air of vaults and tanks.
- They fill the air with noxious fumes, besides causing sound pollution.
- In the past, I used to believe that in a democracy these people should be free to foul the airwaves with their noxious opinions.
- Visitors have to contend with toxic gases, noxious fumes, and showers of hot ash.
- If the fox population is to be controlled, (as it must be) fox hunting is no more noxious than other means of doing this.
- More to the point, it involves copious amounts of rubber cement and other noxious solvents.
- Narcissism is a noxious mental disease that leads people to grandiose delusions.
Synonyms
poisonous, toxic, deadly, virulent

Origin

Late 15th century: from Latin noxius (from noxa ‘harm’) + -ous.

词汇	noxious
释义	Definition of noxious in English: noxious adjective ˈnɒkʃəsˈnɑkʃəs Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant. 有害的；有毒的；让人厌恶的 they were overcome by the noxious fumes 他们被有毒烟气熏倒了。 Example sentencesExamples What's less well understood is how noxious such projects are for the cities that surround them. The courts have experienced problems over the definition of poison or other noxious thing. It's an artificial fragrance used in an attempt to cover up the noxious smell of pesticides. It is not necessary to prove damage to health from noxious emissions in order to establish a nuisance. They fill the air with noxious fumes, besides causing sound pollution. His continued presence in government taints it with the noxious smell of cronyism. There is also a specific obligation to prevent the emission of noxious or offensive substances into the atmosphere. In the past, I used to believe that in a democracy these people should be free to foul the airwaves with their noxious opinions. The residents say that even in fine and warm weather they also have to endure the noxious smell of sewage from their drains. Luckily I smelled the noxious fumes, ran upstairs and managed to extinguish it. More to the point, it involves copious amounts of rubber cement and other noxious solvents. Burning glue sent noxious fumes into the night sky in Brentford this week, after a factory caught fire near the Great West Road. Visitors have to contend with toxic gases, noxious fumes, and showers of hot ash. By vigorously churning the tank every day, she helps the noxious mixture rot and produce the methane that heats her tea. The noxious fumes are believed to have been caused by a sulphuric acid-based cleaning agent. The closer I got to her room, the stronger I could smell the noxious fumes. Narcissism is a noxious mental disease that leads people to grandiose delusions. Residents quite rightly complain of flies, noxious odours, dust, seagulls and noise pollution from the site. If the fox population is to be controlled, (as it must be) fox hunting is no more noxious than other means of doing this. It can remove toxic and noxious gases from sewers and clean the air of vaults and tanks. Synonyms poisonous, toxic, deadly, virulent harmful, dangerous, pernicious, damaging, destructive, environmentally unfriendly very unpleasant, nasty, disgusting, awful, dreadful, horrible, terrible, vile, revolting, foul, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, appalling, offensive, foul-smelling, evil-smelling, malodorous, fetid, putrid, rancid, unwholesome, unhealthy, insalubrious informal ghastly, horrid Northern Irish informal bogging literary noisome, mephitic archaic disgustful rare miasmal, miasmic, nocuous, olid Derivatives noxiously adverb On the contrary, it is turning even more sharply to the right, embracing the most noxiously reactionary ideologies and relying ever more heavily on the police and military powers of the state. Example sentencesExamples He had a marked aversion to garbage, and this saw him take frequent trips to the dump to rid himself of that noxiously insidious but ever-accumulating stuff. Other targets, sorted according to the noxiously specific Nazi taxonomy, were housed elsewhere. His personal sadism and the ‘kick’ he gets from exercising this ultimate power was revealed most noxiously in his public mimicking of the plea for clemency by a condemned woman. A threatening new creature rises from Japan's sludge-ridden Suruga Bay, feeds on the noxiously fuming smokestacks of Osaka, and sprays an acidic cloud that dissolves human flesh on contact. noxiousness noun The Nobel Prize winner for Medicine Charles Richet attributed this silence to the disgust that arises from noxiousness and the lack of usefulness of human waste. Example sentencesExamples Second, the obvious grounds on which to terminate Churchill are not the stupidity and the noxiousness of his ideas, but his fraudulent claim to be something he isn't. Unfortunately, the sort of assistance given by Jupiter isn't likely to remove much noxiousness. While that fresh air (called make-up air in HVAC circles) is coming in, thirty years of advancement in home design and energy efficiency is leaking out - just so you can rid yourself of a few cubic feet of noxiousness. Origin Late 15th century: from Latin noxius (from noxa 'harm') + -ous. innocent from Middle English: Literally meaning ‘not harming’, innocent goes back to Latin in- ‘not’ and nocere ‘to hurt, injure’, which also lies behind nuisance (Late Middle English), noxious (Late Middle English) ‘harmful’, its opposite innocuous (late 16th century), and obnoxious (late 16th century). Rhymes obnoxious Definition of noxious in US English: noxious adjectiveˈnɑkʃəsˈnäkSHəs Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant. 有害的；有毒的；让人厌恶的 they were overcome by the noxious fumes 他们被有毒烟气熏倒了。 Example sentencesExamples Luckily I smelled the noxious fumes, ran upstairs and managed to extinguish it. It is not necessary to prove damage to health from noxious emissions in order to establish a nuisance. Residents quite rightly complain of flies, noxious odours, dust, seagulls and noise pollution from the site. His continued presence in government taints it with the noxious smell of cronyism. What's less well understood is how noxious such projects are for the cities that surround them. The residents say that even in fine and warm weather they also have to endure the noxious smell of sewage from their drains. The courts have experienced problems over the definition of poison or other noxious thing. There is also a specific obligation to prevent the emission of noxious or offensive substances into the atmosphere. By vigorously churning the tank every day, she helps the noxious mixture rot and produce the methane that heats her tea. The noxious fumes are believed to have been caused by a sulphuric acid-based cleaning agent. The closer I got to her room, the stronger I could smell the noxious fumes. Burning glue sent noxious fumes into the night sky in Brentford this week, after a factory caught fire near the Great West Road. It's an artificial fragrance used in an attempt to cover up the noxious smell of pesticides. It can remove toxic and noxious gases from sewers and clean the air of vaults and tanks. They fill the air with noxious fumes, besides causing sound pollution. In the past, I used to believe that in a democracy these people should be free to foul the airwaves with their noxious opinions. Visitors have to contend with toxic gases, noxious fumes, and showers of hot ash. If the fox population is to be controlled, (as it must be) fox hunting is no more noxious than other means of doing this. More to the point, it involves copious amounts of rubber cement and other noxious solvents. Narcissism is a noxious mental disease that leads people to grandiose delusions. Synonyms poisonous, toxic, deadly, virulent Origin Late 15th century: from Latin noxius (from noxa ‘harm’) + -ous.
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