Toxic
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Toxic \Tox"ic\, Toxical \Tox"ic*al\, a. [L. toxicum poison,
originally, a poison in which arrows were dipped, Gr.
toxiko`n (sc. ?) poison for smearing arrows with, fr.
toxiko`s of or for the bow, from to`xon bow, arrow. Cf.
{Intoxicate}.]
Of or pertaining to poison; poisonous; as, toxic medicines.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "toxic":
baleful, baneful, catching, communicable, contagious, corroding,
corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging,
deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous,
disserviceable, distressing, envenomed, harmful, hurtful,
infectious, infective, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent,
malign, malignant, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic,
mischievous, noisome, noxious, ominous, pernicious, pestiferous,
pestilential, poison, poisonous, prejudicial, scatheful, toxicant,
toxiferous, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious,
virulent
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