noxious

The word “noxious” has 2 syllables: nox-ious

It's pronounced as /ˈnɒkʃəs/


What is synonym and antonym for noxious?

In the thesaurus, “noxious” has 149 synonyms and 79 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for noxious along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for noxious

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • adverse
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bad
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • barbarous
  • brackish
  • contagious
  • contemptible
  • corrupting
  • damaging
  • dangerous
  • deadly
  • deleterious
  • despicable
  • destructive
  • detestable
  • detrimental
  • disagreeable
  • disgusting
  • dislikable
  • dislikeable
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dreadful
  • evil
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • fatal
  • fetid
  • foul
  • frightful
  • fulsome
  • germy
  • ghastly
  • grewsome
  • grim
  • grisly
  • gross
  • gruesome
  • hard
  • harmful
  • hateful
  • hazardous
  • heinous
  • hideous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • horrific
  • horrifying
  • hostile
  • hurtful
  • ill
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inimical
  • injurious
  • insalubrious
  • insalutary
  • insanitary
  • insidious
  • jeopardizing
  • killer
  • lethal
  • loathsome
  • lousy
  • lurid
  • macabre
  • malignant
  • menacing
  • mischievous
  • miserable
  • monstrous
  • mortal
  • nasty
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nightmarish
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • nonnutritious
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • off-putting
  • offensive
  • ominous
  • parlous
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • poisonous
  • prejudicial
  • putrid
  • rancid
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • risky
  • ruinous
  • scandalous
  • shocking
  • sick
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • sinister
  • spoiled
  • stinking
  • terrible
  • threatening
  • toxic
  • ugly
  • unchristian
  • uncivilized
  • undesirable
  • unfriendly
  • ungodly
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unhygienic
  • unpleasant
  • unsafe
  • unsanitary
  • unsavory
  • unsound
  • unspeakable
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • unwholesome
  • upsetting
  • venomous
  • vile
  • virulent
  • wicked

Antonyms for noxious

  • acceptable
  • advantageous
  • agreeable
  • alluring
  • anodyne
  • appealing
  • attractive
  • beneficial
  • benign
  • benignant
  • blessed
  • blest
  • congenial
  • curative
  • curing
  • darling
  • delectable
  • delicious
  • delightful
  • delightsome
  • desirable
  • dreamy
  • dulcet
  • enjoyable
  • favorable
  • felicitous
  • good
  • gratifying
  • harmless
  • healthful
  • healthy
  • heavenly
  • helpful
  • hurtless
  • hygienic
  • innocent
  • innocuous
  • inoffensive
  • inviting
  • kind
  • likable
  • likeable
  • luscious
  • nice
  • noncorrosive
  • nondestructive
  • nonfatal
  • noninfectious
  • nonlethal
  • nonpoisonous
  • nonpolluting
  • nontoxic
  • nonvenomous
  • nutritious
  • palatable
  • palliative
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • propitious
  • pure
  • remedial
  • restorative
  • safe
  • salubrious
  • salutary
  • sanitary
  • satisfying
  • savory
  • savoury
  • secure
  • sound
  • sterile
  • sweet
  • unexceptionable
  • unobjectionable
  • useful
  • welcome
  • wholesome

Meanings of noxious

  • adjective
    1. Harmful; injurious.

Example Sentences

  • The factory released noxious fumes into the air, causing health problems in the nearby town.
  • Noxious chemicals from the spill contaminated the water supply.
  • The plant is considered noxious and harmful to the local ecosystem.
  • Prolonged exposure to noxious substances can lead to serious respiratory issues.
  • The noxious effects of the pesticide were felt across the entire farm.

On this page you'll find 228 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to noxious, such as: abhorrent, abominable, acceptable, advantageous, adverse, agreeable, alluring.

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Related Words

abhorrent

  • abominable
  • appalling
  • arrogant
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • barbarous
  • bold-faced
  • brackish
  • brash
  • brassy
  • brazen
  • catty
  • cavalier
  • cheeky
  • cocky
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • cruel
  • despicable
  • despiteful
  • detestable
  • disagreeable
  • discourteous
  • disdainful
  • disgusting
  • dislikable
  • dislikeable
  • disrespectful
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dreadful
  • evil
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • foul
  • fresh
  • frightful
  • fulsome
  • ghastly
  • grewsome
  • grim
  • grisly
  • gross
  • gruesome
  • hard
  • hateful
  • haughty
  • heinous
  • hideous
  • hifalutin
  • high-handed
  • high-hat
  • highfalutin
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • horrific
  • horrifying
  • impertinent
  • impudent
  • insolent
  • loathsome
  • lofty
  • lordly
  • lousy
  • lurid
  • macabre
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • mean
  • miserable
  • monstrous
  • nasty
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nightmarish
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • off-putting
  • offensive
  • pompous
  • pretentious
  • prideful
  • rancid
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • sassy
  • saucy
  • scandalous
  • scornful
  • self-important
  • shocking
  • sick
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • sniffish
  • snobbish
  • spiteful
  • supercilious
  • superior
  • terrible
  • ugly
  • unchristian
  • uncivilized
  • undesirable
  • ungodly
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unpleasant
  • unsavory
  • unspeakable
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • unwholesome
  • uppish
  • uppity
  • upsetting
  • vile

damaging

  • abusing
  • adverse
  • afflicting
  • aggrieving
  • annihilating
  • bad
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • banging up
  • bashing
  • battering
  • blemishing
  • blighting
  • bloodying
  • blowing out
  • botching
  • breaking
  • bruising
  • clobbering
  • compromising
  • contagious
  • contusing
  • crabbing
  • creasing
  • crippling
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dangerous
  • dashing
  • deadly
  • decimating
  • defacing
  • deleterious
  • demolishing
  • denting
  • desolating
  • destroying
  • destructive
  • deteriorating
  • detrimental
  • devastating
  • dinging
  • dinting
  • disabling
  • disadvantageous
  • disfiguring
  • doing in
  • endamaging
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • eroding
  • evil
  • fatal
  • flawing
  • gashing
  • goring
  • grazing
  • hamstringing
  • harmful
  • harming
  • hazardous
  • hostile
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • ill
  • impairing
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inimical
  • injuring
  • injurious
  • insidious
  • jeopardizing
  • killer
  • lacerating
  • laming
  • laying up
  • lethal
  • maiming
  • malignant
  • maltreating
  • mangling
  • marring
  • menacing
  • mischievous
  • mutilating
  • nasty
  • nicking
  • nocent
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • ominous
  • parlous
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • poisonous
  • prejudicial
  • pulverizing
  • queering
  • razing
  • risky
  • ruining
  • ruinous
  • scalding
  • scarring
  • scathing
  • scourging
  • scouring
  • scraping
  • shattering
  • sinister
  • smashing
  • spoiling
  • straining
  • tarnishing
  • tearing
  • tearing down
  • threatening
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undermining
  • unfriendly
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unwholesome
  • venomous
  • vitiating
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wicked
  • wiping out
  • wounding
  • wrecking

damning

  • abhorring
  • abominating
  • adjudging
  • admonishing
  • adverse
  • anathematizing
  • apocalyptic
  • apocalyptical
  • attacking
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • belittling
  • berating
  • blacklisting
  • blaming
  • blasting
  • calamitous
  • castigating
  • cataclysmal
  • cataclysmic
  • catastrophic
  • censuring
  • chastening
  • chastising
  • chiding
  • concluding
  • condemning
  • convicting
  • correcting
  • criticizing
  • cursing
  • damaging
  • damnatory
  • deciding
  • decreeing
  • decrying
  • deleterious
  • denouncing
  • deprecating
  • destructive
  • determining
  • detesting
  • detrimental
  • disastrous
  • disciplining
  • disparaging
  • dispraising
  • dissing
  • dooming
  • evil
  • excommunicating
  • execrating
  • fatal
  • fateful
  • faulting
  • finding
  • hapless
  • harmful
  • hating
  • hurtful
  • ill
  • ill-fated
  • ill-starred
  • imprecating
  • incriminating
  • injurious
  • judging
  • knocking
  • lambasting
  • loathing
  • luckless
  • maledicting
  • noxious
  • opining
  • ostracizing
  • panning
  • penalizing
  • pernicious
  • prejudicial
  • punishing
  • raking
  • rebuking
  • reprehending
  • reprimanding
  • reproaching
  • reprobating
  • reproving
  • resolving
  • reviling
  • ruinous
  • ruling
  • scolding
  • sentencing
  • slamming
  • unfortunate
  • upbraiding
  • vituperating

macabre

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • alarming
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bloodcurdling
  • cadaverous
  • deathly
  • deplorable
  • dire
  • direful
  • disagreeable
  • disgusting
  • distasteful
  • dreadful
  • evil
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • forbidding
  • formidable
  • foul
  • frightening
  • frightful
  • ghastly
  • ghostly
  • ghoulish
  • grewsome
  • grim
  • grisly
  • grotesque
  • gruesome
  • gut-wrenching
  • hair-raising
  • heart-stopping
  • heinous
  • hideous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • horrific
  • horrifying
  • intimidating
  • loathsome
  • lurid
  • monstrous
  • morbid
  • nauseating
  • nightmare
  • nightmarish
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • offensive
  • redoubtable
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • scary
  • shocking
  • sickening
  • spookish
  • spooky
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • terrifying
  • ugly
  • unearthly
  • unsightly
  • unspeakable
  • vile
  • weird

objectionable


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