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adj
Causing injury; harmful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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Synonyms: injurious, nocuous, harmful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, hurtful, inimical, mischievous, nocent, noxious, noisome, prejudicial, scathand, scathel, sullen, venom
Antonyms: none provided
adj
guilty; not innocent
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: culpable, to blame, at fault, blameworthy, censurable, guilty, nocent, reprehensible
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A guilty person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
having a tendency to cause harm
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English nocent (“guilty”), from Latin nocens, present participle of nocere (“to harm”). Doublet of nuisant.
