poisonous
Containing sufficient poison to be dangerous to touch or ingest.
Other meanings
Of an animal such as a snake or spider, or parts of its body: producing a toxin intended for defensive or offensive use which is usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; hence, of a bite or sting: injecting poison.
Negative, harmful.
Related words
- autopoisonous
- nonpoisonous
- poisonously
- poisonousness
- unpoisonous
- fruit of the poisonous tree
- poisonous compliment
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "poisounous".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “poisonous” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.