Basic Details
Word: Injurious
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Causing harm or damage, to health or to something else.
Synonyms: harmful, damaging, hurtful, unhealthy
Antonyms: harmless, beneficial, healthy
How to Spell Injurious
Syllables: in - ju - ri - ous
Tricky part: The y of injury turns into i before ous. Students write injurous, leaving the i out, or injureous.
Watch out for: injurous, injureous, injuryous
Memory tip: Injury swaps its y for an i and then adds ous, just as glory becomes glorious and fury becomes furious.
Usage Examples
Example 1: Loud music through earphones can be injurious to your hearing.
Example 2: The report found the factory smoke injurious to the crops nearby.
Example 3: Skipping breakfast every day may be injurious to your health.
Fun Fact
India's Cigarettes Act of 1975 made every packet carry the warning Cigarette smoking is injurious to health; later laws added large picture warnings.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
injureious
a) r
b) i
c) e
d) u
Show answer
c) e. There is no e in injurious: the y of injury becomes i, and ous follows.
Word Connection
Choose the word opposite in meaning to injurious as used in the sentence:
Long hours of hunching over a phone proved injurious to Kabir's posture.
a) hurtful
b) damaging
c) harmful
d) beneficial
Show answer
d) beneficial. Injurious things do harm; beneficial things do good.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
Pesticides sprayed too often can be uiounsirj to bees and butterflies.
a) injuries
b) luxurious
c) injurious
d) ingenious
Show answer
c) injurious. A j and two u's sit in the jumble, which points to injurious; injuries has an e, not an o.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which habit is injurious to your teeth?
a) Visiting the dentist
b) Brushing twice a day
c) Drinking plenty of water
d) Eating sweets at night without brushing
Show answer
d) Eating sweets at night without brushing
2. Injurious belongs to the same word family as ____.
a) jungle
b) inject
c) jewel
d) injury
Show answer
d) injury
