Synonyms for pernicious
pərˈnɪʃ əsper·ni·cious

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1. 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.

   Synonyms:
   bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

   Antonyms:
   advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome

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1. pernicious

   Synonyms:
   hurtful, harmful, noxious, deleterious, detrimental, destructive, deadly, injurious, baneful

   Antonyms:
   beneficial, wholesome, innocuous, undetrimental, innocent, salutary

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1. baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilentadjective

   exceedingly harmful

   Synonyms:
   pestiferous, deathly, virulent, baneful, venomous, baleful, mortal, insidious, lethal, pestilent, deadly, plaguey, subtle, pestilential, mortal(a)

   Antonyms:
   harmless, innocuous

2. 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

   Antonyms:
   harmless, innocuous

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1. perniciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   hurtful, deleterious, injurious, detrimental, baneful, baleful, prejudicial, noxious, mischievous, damaging, disadvantageous, destructive, ruinous, fatal

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1. perniciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   deleterious, harmful, noisome, baleful, vicious

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1. List of paraphrases for "pernicious":

   harmful, perverse, detrimental, damaging, deleterious, malignant, adverse, disastrous, malign, malicious, evil

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1. Samuel Tombs:

   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.

2. The Russian foreign ministry:

   In our view, the United States and other NATO members should have long abandoned the pernicious one-sided steps in the missile defence field. They wouldn't have to worry about the consequences then.

3. Jon Voight:

   There are a lot of conservatives in Hollywood, and they’re not very welcome, Voight told the December issue of Cigar Afficiando. It’s a big surprise that we’ve come to this juncture where people with patriotic thoughts could not find a home in Hollywood. i think the word ‘progressive’ is a very devious term. It was created as a substitute for ‘communist,’ he said. What they propose is the reverse of progress. It’s some that that does taste of communism and Karl Marx’s pernicious philosophy.

4. Tom Cardamone:

   This study highlights that illicit financial flows are pervasive and pernicious in the developing world.

5. Alexander Herzen:

   All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will.