nontoxic

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adjective

Not toxic; not poisonous.

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivenontoxic (not comparable)

alternative non-toxic

  1. not comparableNot toxic; not poisonous.

    The Try Guys, like everyone making a living online, were inevitably shaped by their audience’s desires: They and their fans all had their hands on the Ouija board, and together they conjured a nontoxic brand of masculinity — until Fulmer flicked the lights on, exposing the fantasy.

    2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine

    Synonyms: atoxic, nonpoisonous · Antonyms: poisonous, toxic

nounnontoxic (plural nontoxics)

plural nontoxics · alternative non-toxic

  1. A substance that is not toxic.

    I've simplified car cleaning to just the basic nontoxics.

    1997, Karen Logan, Clean House Clean Planet, page 101
    1 more example

    The point is that increasingly we'll have two choices: fight lead bans and lose, or learn what nontoxics work for upland birds.

    2008, Phil Bourjaily, “New Age Birdshot”, in Field & Stream, volume 113, number 2, page 26

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot toxic; not poisonous.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivenot producing or resulting from poison

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Englishnon-
  2. Ancient Greekτοξῐκός (toxĭkós)
  3. Ancient Greekτοξικόν (toxikón)
  4. Latintoxicum
  5. Latintoxicu
  6. Frenchtoxique
  7. Englishtoxic
  8. Englishnontoxic

From non- + toxic.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Danish ugiftig
  • ugiftignot toxic
Dutch atoxisch
  • atoxischnot toxic
Finnish myrkytön
  • myrkytönnot toxic
French atoxique
  • atoxiquenot toxic
German ungiftig, atoxisch
  • ungiftignot toxic
  • atoxischnot toxic
Italian atossico
  • atossiconot toxic
Polish atoksyczny, nietoksyczny
  • atoksycznynot toxic
  • nietoksycznynot toxic
Portuguese atóxico
  • atóxiconot toxic
Romanian atoxic
  • atoxicnot toxic
Spanish no tóxico
  • no tóxiconot toxic
Swedish ogiftig
  • ogiftignot toxic
Cite this entry
APA

nontoxic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nontoxic

MLA

“nontoxic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nontoxic. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nontoxic,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nontoxic.

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