different between unclean vs noxious
unclean
English
Etymology
From Middle English unclene, from Old English uncl?ne, equivalent to un- +? clean.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?kli?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Adjective
unclean (comparative uncleaner, superlative uncleanest)
- Dirty, soiled or foul.
- Not moral or chaste.
- Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:unclean
Translations
unclean From the web:
- what unclean animals means in the bible
- what uncleanness mean in the bible
- what unclean hands means in law
- what uncleanness mean
- what unclean vocals
- what's unclean hands mean
- what's unclean hands
- what is uncleanness in the bible
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
noxious From the web:
- what noxious means
- what noxious stimuli mean
- noxious what the deck
- noxious what does it means
- noxious what is the definition
- what are noxious weeds
- what are noxious liquid substances
- what expels noxious fumes from a laboratory
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