different between depraved vs noxious

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p?e?vd/

Verb

depraved

1. simple past tense and past participle of deprave

Adjective

depraved (comparative more depraved, superlative most depraved)

1. Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
2. (archaic) Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal.
   • 1916, Veterinary Medicine (volume 11, page 759)

     There was a constant dripping of urine from the penis, a depraved appetite and meninguria. On examination, two calculi were easily felt, and I advised the owner that an operation was all that would save his animal […]

Derived terms

• depraved-heart murder
• depravedly
• depravedness

Related terms

• deprave
• depravity

Translations

Anagrams

• pervaded

English

Alternative forms

• noctious (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin noxius (“hurtful, injurious”), from noxa (“hurt, injury”), from nocere (“to hurt, injure”); see nocent.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?k??s/

Adjective

noxious (comparative more noxious, superlative most noxious)

1. Harmful; injurious.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "noxious" is often applied: substance, chemical, fume, gas, odor, plant, weed, animal, stimulus, stimulation.

Synonyms

• harmful
• injurious
• scathel
• see also Thesaurus:harmful

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• noxious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• noxious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• noxious at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “noxious”, in Online Etymology Dictionary