Injurious
adjective
Causing or likely to cause damage or harm.
Smoking is injurious to health.
Often appears as...
- injurious to health
- injurious effects
adjective
Legally or criminally harmful or offensive.
He was charged with causing injurious harm to the plaintiff.
Often appears as...
- injurious harm
- injurious behavior
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Formal
adjective
Causing or likely to cause damage or harm.
Smoking is injurious to health.
Often appears as...
- injurious to health
- injurious effects
adjective
Legally or criminally harmful or offensive.
He was charged with causing injurious harm to the plaintiff.
Often appears as...
- injurious harm
- injurious behavior
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Emphasizes harm done, especially in health-related contexts, suggesting it should be avoided.
Consuming excessive alcohol is injurious to your wellbeing.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Warning
Often used to warn others about serious risks or dangers.
Ignoring safety protocols may prove injurious in this industry.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Language
Predominantly used in formal contexts, such as academic papers or official warnings.
The company released a statement about the injurious effects of its waste.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Emphasizes harm done, especially in health-related contexts, suggesting it should be avoided.
Consuming excessive alcohol is injurious to your wellbeing.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Warning
Often used to warn others about serious risks or dangers.
Ignoring safety protocols may prove injurious in this industry.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Language
Predominantly used in formal contexts, such as academic papers or official warnings.
The company released a statement about the injurious effects of its waste.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Emphasizes harm done, especially in health-related contexts, suggesting it should be avoided.
Consuming excessive alcohol is injurious to your wellbeing.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Warning
Often used to warn others about serious risks or dangers.
Ignoring safety protocols may prove injurious in this industry.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Language
Predominantly used in formal contexts, such as academic papers or official warnings.
The company released a statement about the injurious effects of its waste.
Compare with
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In search for the man...
People don't know that they have lived through worse, that problems of the heart hit with a force greater than a runaway truck, that problems of the mind are greater still, more injurious, than a hundred broken necks.
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In search for the man...
People don't know that they have lived through worse, that problems of the heart hit with a force greater than a runaway truck, that problems of the mind are greater still, more injurious, than a hundred broken necks.
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Kurt Eichenwald
American Editor
The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.
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George Muller
English Clergyman
As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.
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Democritus
Greek Philosopher
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
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John Dalberg-Acton
English Historian
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
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Charles Darwin
English Scientist
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
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Robert Lighthizer
American Public Servant
While never the darling of pure free traders, measures to combat dumping, subsidies, and injurious import surges have always been deemed essential by open economies like the United States to maintain support for trade.
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William Falconer
Scottish Poet
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
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Richard Jefferies
English Writer
It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.
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John D. Rockefeller
American Businessman
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Prudentius
Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.
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Kurt Eichenwald
American Editor
The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.
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George Muller
English Clergyman
As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.
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Democritus
Greek Philosopher
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
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John Dalberg-Acton
English Historian
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
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Charles Darwin
English Scientist
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
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Robert Lighthizer
American Public Servant
While never the darling of pure free traders, measures to combat dumping, subsidies, and injurious import surges have always been deemed essential by open economies like the United States to maintain support for trade.
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William Falconer
Scottish Poet
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
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Richard Jefferies
English Writer
It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.
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John D. Rockefeller
American Businessman
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Prudentius
Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.
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