poisonous
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɔɪzənəs/, /ˈpɔɪznəs/
poisonous
- Containing sufficient poison to be dangerous to touch or ingest.
- 2003, Charles L. Fergus, Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast, Stackpole Books (ISBN 9780811726412), page 77:
- I had picked a mushroom so poisonous that particles of it, stuck to my fingers and accidentally swallowed, could have made me deathly ill, and a piece the size of my thumb could have killed me.
- Synonyms: poisoned, toxic, venomous, attery
- Antonyms: nonpoisonous, unpoisonous
- 2003, Charles L. Fergus, Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast, Stackpole Books (ISBN 9780811726412), page 77:
- (figuratively) Negative, harmful.
- 2013, Kylie Griffin, Allegiance Sworn, Penguin (ISBN 9781101622094)
- He didn't want to end up like his grandfather, bitter and intractable, consumed in his hatred like an addict on haze — a poisonous attitude that would possess him all his remaining years.
- Synonyms: toxic
- 2013, Kylie Griffin, Allegiance Sworn, Penguin (ISBN 9781101622094)
- French: vénéneux, toxique
- German: giftig, toxisch
- Italian: velenifero, velenoso, tossico
- Portuguese: tóxico, venenoso
- Russian: ядови́тый
- Spanish: tóxico, venenoso, ponzoñoso
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