MEANING
1. Harmful to health or living things.
2. Highly unpleasant or offensive in smell or another sensory quality.
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- noxious fumes
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Noxious fumes escaped the drain.
The substance was noxious to the exposed organisms.
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more noxious; superlative most noxious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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