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Noxious vs Disastrous - What's the difference?

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Noxious is a related term of disastrous.


As adjectives the difference between noxious and disastrous

is that noxious is harmful; injurious while disastrous is of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.

noxious

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Harmful; injurious.
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    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "noxious" is often applied: substance, chemical, fume, gas, odor, plant, weed, animal, stimulus, stimulation.

    Synonyms

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    disastrous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
  • foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
  • Synonyms

    * (calamitous) cataclysmic, catastrophic * (ill-omened) ill-boding, , sinister

    Derived terms

    * disastrously