toxic

Meaning

1. Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
2. Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
3. Severely negative or harmful.
4. Hateful or strongly antipathetic.

Synonyms

poisonous

venomous

virulent

noxious

toxicant

poison

toxicity

pernicious

virulence

pestilent

deadly

polluting

putrefactive

septic

toxical

toxic substance

toxin

venemous

venenation

viperous

vitriolic

toxicosis

be poisonous

poisonous drug

annihilating

toxiferous

baleful

basilisk

fatal

hard drug

intoxicating

intoxication

miasmic

nocuous

pestilential

poisoning

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɒk.sɪk/

Etymology

Borrowed from French toxique, from Late Latin toxicus (“poisoned”), from Latin toxicum (“poison”), from Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón) [φάρμακον (phármakon)] ("poison for use on arrows"), from τοξικός (toxikós, “pertaining to arrows or archery”), from τόξον (tóxon, “bow”).