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Definition of Poisonous
Poisonous

Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.

Related Definitions:
Baneful, Corrupting, Having, Noxious, Of, Or, Poison, Qualities, The, Venomous


Poisonous Quotations

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Chanakya

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.
Emma Goldman

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
Thomas Mann

For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.
Ernst Zundel

It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.
Janet Suzman

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
Augustus Hare

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
Richard Harris

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.
Henry Walter Bates

Poisonous Translations

poisonous in Afrikaans is giftig
poisonous in Danish is giftig
poisonous in Dutch is venijnig, giftig, vergiftig
poisonous in French is toxique
poisonous in German is giftigen, giftig
poisonous in Italian is virulento
poisonous in Latin is venenifer, veneficus
poisonous in Portuguese is venenoso
poisonous in Swedish is giftig


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