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toxical

toxical is the archaic form of toxic.

Meaning of toxic

Adjective

toxic (comparative more toxic, superlative most toxic)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    poisonous, venomous
  2. 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.
  3. (figuratively) Severely negative or harmful.
    • a toxic environment that promoted bullying
  4. (figuratively) Of a person, hateful or strongly antipathetic.
    • It is not good to be around toxic people.

Forms of toxical

comparativemore toxical
superlativemost toxical

Questions about toxical

What is toxical the archaic form of?
Toxical is the archaic form of toxic.

Words near toxical in the dictionary

  1. toxic syndrome
  2. toxic tort
  3. toxic waste
  4. toxic wastes
  5. toxicaemia
  6. toxical
  7. toxically
  8. toxicant
  9. toxicants
  10. toxicarioside
  11. toxicarol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toxical (page history and authors); toxic (page history and authors). 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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