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INJURIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Harmful to living things
Example:
deleterious chemical additives
Synonyms:
deleterious; hurtful; injurious
Classified under:
Similar:
harmful (causing or capable of causing harm)
Derivation:
injuriousness (destructiveness that causes harm or injury)
injury (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)
Context examples:
He perfectly knew his own meaning; and having warmly protested against her suspicion as most injurious, and slightly touched upon his respect for Miss Smith as her friend,—but acknowledging his wonder that Miss Smith should be mentioned at all,—he resumed the subject of his own passion, and was very urgent for a favourable answer.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
They agree with me in apprehending that this false step in one daughter will be injurious to the fortunes of all the others; for who, as Lady Catherine herself condescendingly says, will connect themselves with such a family?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
If, indeed, by any strange mischance his father should have gained intelligence of what she had dared to think and look for, of her causeless fancies and injurious examinations, she could not wonder at any degree of his indignation.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
