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Definition of Injurious
1. Adjective. Harmful to living things. "Deleterious chemical additives"
Definition of Injurious
1. a. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable.
Definition of Injurious
1. Adjective. causing physical harm or injury; harmful ¹
2. Adjective. causing harm to one's reputation; slanderous, libelous, invidious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Injurious
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Injurious
1. 1. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. "Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute from us, we were free." (Shak) 2. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit, reputation, property, etc. "Without being injurious to the memory of our English Pindar." (Dryden) Synonym: Harmful, hurtful, pernicious, mischievous, baneful, deleterious, noxious, ruinous, detrimental. Origin: L. Injuriousus, injurius; cf. F. Injurieux. See Injury. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Injurious
Literary usage of Injurious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"States must bear vicarious responsibility for all internationally injurious acts
of their organs. As, however, these organs are of different kinds and of ..."
2. The Analyst by Society of Public Analysts (Great Britain). (1880)
"The Mayor said the Act did not regard it as adulteration if any substance was
mixed with an article, which was not of itself injurious to health, ..."
3. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Colours injurious to health may not be used in the production of articles of ...
injurious colours in the meaning of this law are those colouring- matters ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"In the Heteroptera there are 11 families which are strictly plant feeders ; 8
are strictly predaceous ; 3 are both injurious and predaceous ; while the ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"if possible, some light as to the relative proportion of insects which are
injurious or beneficial. It will be manifestly impossible to catalogue the ..."
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