INJURIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does injurious mean? 

• INJURIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective INJURIOUS has 1 sense:

1. harmful to living things

  Familiarity information: INJURIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INJURIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Harmful to living things

Synonyms:

deleterious; hurtful; injurious

Context example:

deleterious chemical additives

Similar:

harmful (causing or capable of causing harm)

Derivation:

injuriousness (destructiveness that causes harm or injury)

injury (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

 Context examples 

It is known that you are not my sister; I cannot introduce you as such: to attempt it would be to fasten injurious suspicions on us both.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The fever was over, and Emma could harbour little fear of the pulse being quickened again by injurious courtesy.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Maintaining the integrity of the gastrointestinal tract despite the continual presence of microbial flora and injurious agents is essential.

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

He is a broad-faced, bull-necked, young butcher, with rough red cheeks, an ill-conditioned mind, and an injurious tongue.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I got down into the canoe, while the Dutchman, standing upon the deck, loaded me with all the curses and injurious terms his language could afford.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Inflammation serves to destroy, dilute, or wall off both the injurious agent and the injured tissue.

(Inflammation, NCI Thesaurus)

Their findings raise the possibility that early-life antibiotic use may promote these effects by reducing the diversity of microbial communities in the gut, encouraging the growth of injurious bacterial species and perhaps also suppressing the growth of beneficial microbes.

(Prolonged antibiotic treatment may alter preterm infants’ microbiome, National Institutes of Health)

Having never even fancied herself in love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and, from her age and disposition, greater steadiness than most first attachments often boast; and so fervently did she value his remembrance, and prefer him to every other man, that all her good sense, and all her attention to the feelings of her friends, were requisite to check the indulgence of those regrets which must have been injurious to her own health and their tranquillity.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Upon this conviction, she would not be surprised if even in Henry and Eleanor Tilney, some slight imperfection might hereafter appear; and upon this conviction she need not fear to acknowledge some actual specks in the character of their father, who, though cleared from the grossly injurious suspicions which she must ever blush to have entertained, she did believe, upon serious consideration, to be not perfectly amiable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The advantage of his having to come only to Uppercross, instead of going six miles another way; of his having, in every respect, a better curacy; of his belonging to their dear Dr Shirley, and of dear, good Dr Shirley's being relieved from the duty which he could no longer get through without most injurious fatigue, had been a great deal, even to Louisa, but had been almost everything to Henrietta.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)