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- Dictionaryinjurious/ɪnˈdʒʊərɪəs/
adjective
- 1. causing or likely to cause damage or harm: "food which is injurious to health"
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The meaning of INJURIOUS is inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental. How to use injurious in a sentence.
injurious to Too much alcohol is injurious to your health. Effect of fluoxetine on self-injurious behavior in the developmentally disabled: a preliminary study. Moreover, preliminary analyses tested process-level hypotheses connecting child maltreatment to self-injurious outcomes via dissociative and somatic mechanisms.
Something that is injurious to someone or to their health or reputation is harmful or damaging to them.
Injurious definition: harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect. See examples of INJURIOUS used in a sentence.
Anything injurious is dangerous. At a construction site, almost anything could be injurious, if you don't know what you're doing (or even if you do). Falling off a ladder could be very injurious. Even crossing the street can have injurious effects if you're hit by a car.
Define injurious. injurious synonyms, injurious pronunciation, injurious translation, English dictionary definition of injurious. adj. 1. Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful: eating habits that are injurious to one's health. 2. Offensive or insulting; hurtful: made injurious...
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective injurious. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
injurious (to somebody/something) causing or likely to cause harm or damage synonym damaging. injurious to health; injurious effects
Something that is injurious to someone or to their health or reputation is harmful or damaging to them.
The decision has had an injurious effect. They have been injuriously affected by the decision.
