TOXIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toxic mean? 

• TOXIC (adjective)
  The adjective TOXIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison

  Familiarity information: TOXIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOXIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison

Context example:

suffering from exposure to toxic substances

Similar:

cyanogenetic; cyanogenic (capable of producing cyanide)

deadly; venomous; virulent (extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom)

hepatotoxic (toxic to the liver)

nephrotoxic (toxic to the kidney)

ototoxic (toxic to the organs of hearing or balance or to the auditory nerve)

poisonous; toxicant (having the qualities or effects of a poison)

Also:

harmful (causing or capable of causing harm)

unhealthful (detrimental to good health)

noxious (injurious to physical or mental health)

Antonym:

nontoxic (not producing or resulting from poison)

Derivation:

toxicity (the degree to which something is poisonous)

toxin (a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species)

 Context examples 

A monoclonal antibody linked to a toxic substance.

(anti-CD19 immunotoxin, NCI Dictionary)

Liposomal annamycin is less toxic and shows improved antitumor activity compared to annamycin.

(Annamycin Liposomal, NCI Thesaurus)

Children are most affected as their lungs and immune systems are still developing and cope less well with breathing in toxic substances.

(Smoother walls healthier for lungs, SciDev.Net)

What I have to say is, are there toxic effects or not?

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

It contains an antibody linked to a toxic substance.

(Anti-CD19/Anti-CD22 Bispecific Immunotoxin DT2219ARL, NCI Dictionary)

We will suppose, then, that something was burned in each case which produced an atmosphere causing strange toxic effects.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Causes include viral infections, autoimmune disorders, vascular disorders, and toxic agents.

(Myelitis, NCI Thesaurus)

A toxic substance linked to an antibody that attaches to tumor cells and kills them.

(B43-PAP immunotoxin, NCI Dictionary)

Anti-EpCAM-Pseudomonas-exotoxin fusion protein is made by linking a monoclonal antibody fragment to a toxic protein that may kill cancer cells.

(Anti-EpCAM Antibody Fragment-Pseudomonas-exotoxin Fusion Protein, NCI Dictionary)

Broadly, it claims that the chemicals are 'safe' and that people are exposed to such low doses of them that they're not considered toxic.

(Humans exposed to far more hormone-disrupting chemicals than thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)