VENOMOUS

adj. 1 poisonous, deadly, toxic, dangerous, life-threatening, lethal There are few venomous snakes in the British Isles 2 poisonous, virulent, malicious, malevolent, malign, malignant, savage, baleful, envenomed, hostile, antagonistic, spiteful, splenetic, acerbic, rancorous, bitter, embittered, mean, vicious That venomous little man caused me to lose my job