[syn: poisonous, venomous, vicious]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Poisonous \Poi"son*ous\, a.
Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful;
corrupting; noxious. --Shak. -- Poi"son*ous*ly, adv. --
Poi"son*ous*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
poisonous
adj 1: having the qualities or effects of a poison [syn:
poisonous, toxicant]
2: not safe to eat
3: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous
hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn:
poisonous, venomous, vicious]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "poisonous":
bad, baleful, baneful, barfy, brackish, catching, cloying,
communicable, contagious, corroding, corrosive, corrupting,
corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dangerous, deadly,
defamatory, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, diabolical,
disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, envenomed, evil,
fatal, fetid, foul, fulsome, harmful, high, hurtful, icky,
infectious, infective, injurious, lethal, maggoty, malefic,
malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mawkish, mephitic,
miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, mortal, nasty, nauseant,
nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, offensive, ominous,
overripe, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poison,
prejudicial, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rotten, scatheful, septic,
sickening, slanderous, spoiled, stinking, toxic, toxicant,
toxiferous, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious,
vile, virulent, vomity, weevily, yucky