Noxious vs Dismal - What's the difference?
noxious | dismal | Related terms |
Harmful; injurious.
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Noxious is a related term of dismal.
As adjectives the difference between noxious and dismal
is that noxious is harmful; injurious while dismal is disappointingly inadequate.noxious
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)It's a gas, passage=But out of sight is out of mind. And that
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "noxious" is often applied: substance, chemical, fume, gas, odor, plant, weed, animal, stimulus, stimulation.Synonyms
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* * *dismal
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Adjective
(en adjective)Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=Liverpool's efforts thereafter had an air of desperation as their dismal 2012 league form continued.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all. It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.}}