toxic
/ˈtɒk.sɪk/
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toxic adjective: having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
Adjective
toxic (comparative more toxic, superlative most toxic)
- Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
- Tobacco smoke contains many toxic substances.
- If some types of electronic waste aren’t incinerated at a high enough temperature, dioxins, which can cause cancer and developmental problems, infiltrate the food supply. Without proper safeguarding, toxic heavy metals seep into the soil and groundwater.2019 December 8, Hannah Beech, Ryn Jirenuwat, “The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand’s Lungs”, in New York Times
- Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
- The child appeared toxic on arrival at the hospital.
- Severely negative or harmful.
- a toxic environment that promoted bullying
- Of a person, hateful or strongly antipathetic.
- It is not good to be around toxic people.
- Though Twitter is still overrun with toxic anger and fear-based nonsense (now more than ever), it is also, in one crucial way, beginning to play an important role in our response to the pandemic.2020 April 23, Cal Newport, “'Expert Twitter' Only Goes So Far. Bring Back Blogs”, in Wired
toxic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
toxic in Hindi
- having a harmful chemical nature
- विषाक्त viṣākt
toxic in Tamil
- நச்சு
toxic in Marathi
- having a harmful chemical nature
- विषारी viṣārī
toxic in Bengali
- বিষ, বিষপূর্ণ, বিষজনিত, বিষঘটিত
More languagesFewer languages
- toxic in Malayalam
- വിഷജന്യം, വിഷകരം, ജെെവികവിഷമായ, ജെെവോദ്ഭൂതവിഷമായ
- toxic in Sanskrit
- विष viṣa
- toxic in Arabic
- سَامّ sāmm
- toxic in Persian
- زهری
- toxic in Thai
- เป็นพิษ bpen-pít
- toxic in Vietnamese
- độc
Examples of toxic in a sentence
- After the process, the machine purges the chamber before venting it to remove toxic gases.
- The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.
- The chemical monofluoroacetate occurs in all parts of Dichapetalum cymosum, and is responsible for its toxic effects.
Synonyms of toxic
Forms of toxic
| comparative | more toxic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most toxic |
Origin of toxic
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”).
Words formed from toxic
- acarotoxic
- adrenotoxic
- aerotoxic
- agrotoxic
- angiotoxic
- antitoxic
- atoxic
- autotoxic
- bacteriotoxic
- biotoxic
- cancerotoxic
- cardiotoxic
- chemotoxic
- chondrotoxic
- chronotoxic
- ciliotoxic
- coagulotoxic
- cryotoxic
- cytotoxic
- dermatotoxic
- dermatoxic
- detoxicate
- ecotoxic
- embryotoxic
- endotoxic
- entomotoxic
- equitoxic
- excitotoxic
- exotoxic
- fertotoxic
- fetotoxic
- foetotoxic
- fungitoxic
- gametotoxic
- gastrotoxic
- genotoxic
- glucolipotoxic
- glucotoxic
- glycotoxic
- gonadotoxic
- hematotoxic
- hemotoxic
- hepatotoxic
- histotoxic
- hypertoxic
- hypotoxic
- ichthyosarcotoxic
- ichthyotoxic
- immunotoxic
- leucotoxic
- leukotoxic
- lipotoxic
- lymphotoxic
- maternotoxic
- mechanotoxic
- mycotoxic
- myelotoxic
- myotoxic
- mytilotoxine
- nanotoxic
Phrases with toxic
Words that rhyme with toxic
Questions about toxic
- What does toxic mean?
- Toxic means having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
- What is toxic in Hindi?
- Toxic in Hindi is विषाक्त (viṣākt). See Toxic meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is toxic?
- Toxic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce toxic?
- Toxic is pronounced /ˈtɒk.sɪk/ (UK).
Words near toxic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: toxic (page history and authors); toxic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); toxic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); toxic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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