Poisonous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Poisonous \Poi"son*ous\, a.
     Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful;
     corrupting; noxious. --Shak. -- {Poi"son*ous*ly}, adv. --
     {Poi"son*ous*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  poisonous
       adj 1: having the qualities or effects of a poison [syn: {toxicant}]
       2: not safe to eat
       3: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "a malevolent
          lie"; "poisonous hate...in his eyes"- Ernest Hemingway;
          "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn: {venomous}, {vicious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "poisonous":
     bad, baleful, baneful, barfy, brackish, catching, cloying,
     communicable, contagious, corroding, corrosive, corrupting,
     corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dangerous, deadly,
     defamatory, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, diabolical,
     disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, envenomed, evil,
     fatal, fetid, foul, fulsome, harmful, high, hurtful, icky,
     infectious, infective, injurious, lethal, maggoty, malefic,
     malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mawkish, mephitic,
     miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, mortal, nasty, nauseant,
     nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, offensive, ominous,
     overripe, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poison,
     prejudicial, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rotten, scatheful, septic,
     sickening, slanderous, spoiled, stinking, toxic, toxicant,
     toxiferous, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious,
     vile, virulent, vomity, weevily, yucky