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exitious

exitious adjective: harmful, destructive, deadly, pernicious.

Adjective

exitious (comparative more exitious, superlative most exitious)

  1. Harmful, destructive, deadly, pernicious.
    • Diſcorides ſaith that in Perſia they found this Tree to be exitious, which by tranſlation into Ægypt changed its nature1657, Renodaeus tran. Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory

Forms of exitious

comparativemore exitious
superlativemost exitious

Origin of exitious

From Latin exitiosus.

Questions about exitious

What does exitious mean?
Exitious means harmful, destructive, deadly, pernicious.
What part of speech is exitious?
Exitious is an adjective.

Words near exitious in the dictionary

  1. exites
  2. exitial
  3. exiting
  4. exiting stage left
  5. exitings
  6. exitious
  7. exitless
  8. exitlessness
  9. exitonic
  10. exitotoxic
  11. exitotoxicity

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