Toxic

3 definitions found

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

  Toxic \Tox"ic\, Toxical \Tox"ic*al\, a. [L. toxicum poison,
     originally, a poison in which arrows were dipped, Gr.
     toxiko`n (sc. ?) poison for smearing arrows with, fr.
     toxiko`s of or for the bow, from to`xon bow, arrow. Cf.
     {Intoxicate}.]
     Of or pertaining to poison; poisonous; as, toxic medicines.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  toxic
       adj : of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison; "suffering
             from exposure to toxic substances" [ant: {nontoxic}]

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

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "toxic":
     baleful, baneful, catching, communicable, contagious, corroding,
     corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging,
     deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous,
     disserviceable, distressing, envenomed, harmful, hurtful,
     infectious, infective, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent,
     malign, malignant, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic,
     mischievous, noisome, noxious, ominous, pernicious, pestiferous,
     pestilential, poison, poisonous, prejudicial, scatheful, toxicant,
     toxiferous, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious,
     virulent