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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disastrous, devastating |
| Synonyms: | annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, crippling, damaging, deadly, deleterious, depleting, dire, draining, exhausting, extravagant, fatal, fateful, harmful, hurtful, immoderate, impoverishing, injurious, murderous, noxious, pernicious, shattering, suicidal, unfortunate, wasteful, withering, wrackful |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, assisting, beneficial, helpful |
| Main Entry: | toxic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poisonous |
| Synonyms: | baneful, deadly, harmful, lethal, mephitic, noxious, pernicious, pestilential, poison, septic, toxicant, venomous, virulent |
| Antonyms: | harmless, nonpoisonous |
| Main Entry: | unhealthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad in effect on well-being |
| Synonyms: | baneful, chancy, corrupt, corrupting, dangerous, degenerate, degrading, deleterious, demoralizing, detrimental, harmful, hazardous, insalubrious, jeopardous, morbid, nefarious, negative, noisome, noxious, perilous, perverse, poisonous, risky, rotten, treacherous, undesirable, unhealthful, unsanitary, unsound, unwholesome, villainous, virulent, wicked |
| Antonyms: | good, healthy |
| Main Entry: | venomous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poisonous; hateful |
| Synonyms: | accidentally on purpose, antagonistic, baleful, baneful, catty, cussed, deadly, destructive, dirty, evil, hostile, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mephitic, noxious, ornery*, rancorous, savage, spiteful, toxic, toxicant, vicious, vindictive, viperish, viperous, virulent, waspish |
| Antonyms: | kind, praising, unpoisonous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, abject, appalling, bad, base, coarse, contemptible, corrupt, debased, degenerate, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, evil, filthy, foul, horrid, humiliating, ignoble, immoral, impure, iniquitous, loathsome, low, mean, miserable, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noxious, perverted, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sickening, sinful, sleazy*, stinking, ugly, vicious, vulgar, wicked, worthless, wretched |
| Notes: | a vial is a small container, especially for liquids; vile is an adjective meaning despicable, disgusting, or repulsive |
| Antonyms: | gentle, kind, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nocuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | damaging, deadly, harmful, injurious, noxious |
| Main Entry: | pestilent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | baneful, contagious, contaminating, corrupting, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, diseased, evil, fatal, harmful, infectious, injurious, lethal, mortal, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, ruinous, tainting, troublesome, vicious |
| Main Entry: | poisonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmful |
| Synonyms: | bad, baleful, baneful, corrupt, corruptive, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, fatal, hurtful, infective, lethal, malicious, malignant, mephitic, miasmatic, morbid, mortal, nocuous, noisome, noxious, peccant, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, poison, septic, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, venomous, vicious, viperous, virulent |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, harmless, non-toxic |
| Main Entry: | poisoned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | polluted with poison |
| Synonyms: | contaminated, corrupted, deadly, defiled, impure, malignant, noxious, poisonous, tainted, toxic, venomous, virulent |
| Antonyms: | fresh, pure, untainted |
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