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Antonyms for pernicious
pərˈnɪʃ əsper·ni·cious
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
pernicious
Pernicious (Latin per, through, and neco, kill) signifies having the power of destroying or injuring, tending to hurt or kill. Pernicious is stronger than injurious; that which is injurious is capable of doing harm; that which is pernicious is likely to be destructive. Noxious (Latin noceo, hurt) is a stronger word than noisome, as referring to that which is injurious or destructive. Noisome now always denotes that which is extremely disagreeable or disgusting, especially to the sense of smell; as, the noisome stench proclaimed the presence of noxious gases.
Antonyms:
advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesomeSynonyms:
bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
pernicious
Antonyms:
beneficial, wholesome, innocuous, undetrimental, innocent, salutarySynonyms:
hurtful, harmful, noxious, deleterious, detrimental, destructive, deadly, injurious, baneful
Princeton's WordNet
baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilentadjective
exceedingly harmful
Synonyms:
pestiferous, deathly, virulent, baneful, venomous, baleful, mortal, insidious, lethal, pestilent, deadly, plaguey, subtle, pestilential, mortal(a)insidious, pernicious, subtleadjective
working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
"glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
Synonyms:
pestilent, elusive, subtle, baneful, insidious, deadly
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
perniciousadjective
Synonyms:
deleterious, harmful, noisome, baleful, vicious
How to use pernicious in a sentence?
They are against racial discrimination, but pernicious division and discrimination by race have been ongoing for a long time in admissions, so there is wrongful resistance to a change back to privileging individual merit. Those who see everything through the lens of color, want a superficial skin color result, or benefit from that, should join us in opposing discriminating by race.
The MPC's decision to stand pat today ... looks set to repeated over the next few months while inflation hovers near zero, but by the summer, it should be clear that the UK's deflation is neither pernicious nor long-lasting.
There has been some discussion that perhaps this actor tries to refrain from attacking hospitals, schools and the like. But certainly, they're seen as a pernicious ransomware group that has caused significant harm to its victims, both in the Cybersecurity Eric Goldstein and elsewhere.
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
The military has a very specific and strategic job, and that's to keep our country safe, and when you thrust them in to be the front line of a sociological experiment which has a pernicious ideology that makes people hate the United States, a soldier can very quickly start to despise the very thing he's supposed to be protecting.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#155 | good | |
#1412 | useful | |
#1781 | helpful | |
#7271 | innocent | |
#7883 | beneficial | |
#10437 | profitable | |
#11528 | favorable | |
#14453 | harmless | |
#23212 | advantageous | |
#29956 | wholesome | |
#39413 | healthful | |
#44203 | serviceable | |
#45528 | invigorating | |
#48630 | innocuous | |
#48711 | pernicious | |
#59610 | rejuvenating | |
#78072 | salutary | |
#78321 | beneficent |
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