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    [Adjective]  | "nox*ious" | \ ˈnäk-shəs \


    1: physically harmful or destructive to living beings

    2: constituting a harmful influence on mind or behavior; especially : morally corrupting

    3: disagreeable, obnoxious


    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English noxius, borrowed from Latin noxius "guilty, delinquent, harmful, injurious" (derivative of noxa "injurious behavior, harm, mischief") + -us {see: |-ous|-ous}; noxa derivative (perhaps with -s- as a desiderative suffix) from the base of nocēre "to damage (things), injure, harm (persons)," going back to Indo-European *noḱ-éi̯e- "destroy" (with semantic weakening in Latin), whence also Sanskrit nāśáyati "(s/he) destroys," causative derivatives from a verbal base *neḱ- "disappear, pass out of existence, perish," whence, with varying ablaut grades, Sanskrit náśyati "(s/he) is lost, perishes," Avestan nąsat̰ "has gone away, is lost," Tocharian B näk- "destroy," (in middle voice) "disappear, be destroyed";

      * Note : The Indo-European verbal base *neḱ- is also the source of a root noun attested as Latin nec-, nex "violent death, killing"; see: {necro-|necr-}.;

    [Adjective]  | "noxious" 


    1: bad for the well-being of the body;


      * e.g., " ... mixing bleach and ammonia can cause noxious fumes that can seriously harm you "





    2: causing or capable of causing harm;


      * e.g., " ... noxious smog that for years has been encrusting the historic cathedral with soot "





    3: causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment;


      * e.g., " ... the website reserved the right to remove and report hate speech and other noxious types of postings "





     [ "noxious" ]

    1: exactly the same thing as obnoxious...

      * e.g.,  ... You noxious! 

     [ "Noxious" ]

    1: Radical, tubular, cool, amazing

      * e.g.,  ... "Did you see me shred that gnar?" 

     [ "Noxious" ]

    1: A term used to decribe the potency of a poisonous substance.

      * e.g.,  ... The drink was quite noxious and he couldn't have survived. 


     [ "Noxious" ]

    2: A term used to describe excitement or enjoyment referring to, or of, an event or situation.

      * e.g.,  ... Damn, yo! That was some wicked noxious shit! Daaammmn! 

     [ "Noxious" ]

    1: A word that means cool, or dope. used as an adjective to describe something that was cool.

      * e.g.,  ... That was so noxious! 

     [ "Noxious" ]

    1: The opposite of "Obnoxious": Something that is very cool or something that the person using the word has no real opinion on because it's very miniscule or not worth worrying about.

      * e.g.,  ... Example 1: Yo dude, that skateboard trick was so noxious. Example 2: I'm very noxious towards Arby's because I've never had their food. 

     [ "noxious farts" ]

    1: farts so deadly, the stench is powerful enough to kill 10 adult humans

      * e.g.,  ... Uber driver: Stop ripping noxious farts. Let me open the windows. I don't care if it's snowing outside, I have 2 kids & I don't wanna die. 

     [ "Noxious Waste" ]

    1: A bad ass punk band from NE Philadelphia.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude did you go to the Noxious Waste show last night? Nah dude, they dont have shows yet. oh yea... 

     [ "Pyro-noxious Slabs" ]

    1: A hazardous, geologic event wherein a hyper-accelerating flow of highly concentrated, sulfur infused volcanic magma builds, cools and intermittently cracks, avulsing into jaggedly uniform, mobilzed 'slabs' of densely toxic rock formations. In rare and unique environmental conditions, migratory slabs have been observed to spontaneously combust into abounding flames upon impact with proximate flora, fauna and curious homosapien onlookers, resulting in a enveloping expulsion of sulfuric cinder chards and respiratory impairing, noxious fumes.

      * e.g.,  ...  "Did you see how the lava formed into 'Pyro-noxious Slabs' when it came down the side of of the volcano, cooling in rhythmic waves as it hit the ocean water's edge?" "I still can't believe that Drew was instantaneously incinerated into a sulfuric plume of ash when that 'Pyro-noxious Slab' chased after him while he was trying to take pictures!" 

     [ "app-noxious" ]

    1: iPhones and other smartphones are now capable of all kinds of amazing feats. But while our technology has developed by leaps and bounds, human nature — specifically our tendency to become obsessed with shiny new toys — hasn’t changed a whit.

      * e.g.,  ... Person 1: "Wow dude, I just searched that China has over 3 billion people" Person 2: "You are so app-noxious, bro ..." 

     [ "noxious" ]

    1: Informal

      * e.g.,  ... "That shit was noxious, brah" 


     [ "noxious" ]

    2: Insanely cool, used in similar vein as words like tubular, rad, dope, etc.

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