different between disadvantageous vs noxious
disadvantageous
English
Etymology
disadvantage +? -ous
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s?ædv?n?te?d??s/
Adjective
disadvantageous (comparative more disadvantageous, superlative most disadvantageous)
- Not advantageous.
Derived terms
- disadvantageously
Translations
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noxious
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)
- 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
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- what expels noxious fumes from a laboratory
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