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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.
Synonyms:
bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesomeAntonyms:
advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
pernicious
Synonyms:
hurtful, harmful, noxious, deleterious, detrimental, destructive, deadly, injurious, banefulAntonyms:
beneficial, wholesome, innocuous, undetrimental, innocent, salutary
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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
perniciousadjective
Synonyms:
hurtful, deleterious, injurious, detrimental, baneful, baleful, prejudicial, noxious, mischievous, damaging, disadvantageous, destructive, ruinous, fatal
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
perniciousadjective
Synonyms:
deleterious, harmful, noisome, baleful, vicious
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "pernicious":
harmful, perverse, detrimental, damaging, deleterious, malignant, adverse, disastrous, malign, malicious, evil
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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| #841 | bad | |
| #3009 | evil | |
| #5680 | adverse | |
| #9200 | deadly | |
| #9672 | harmful | |
| #9718 | foul | |
| #9840 | subtle | |
| #13351 | destructive | |
| #13639 | malicious | |
| #13724 | lethal | |
| #14146 | mortal | |
| #14517 | damaging | |
| #15592 | malignant | |
| #20139 | elusive | |
| #20371 | detrimental | |
| #22839 | disastrous | |
| #24683 | poisonous | |
| #31554 | perverse | |
| #31651 | noxious | |
| #39559 | insidious | |
| #42095 | injurious | |
| #42256 | mischievous | |
| #43797 | virulent | |
| #43999 | deleterious | |
| #48711 | pernicious | |
| #51420 | venomous | |
| #54344 | hurtful | |
| #72172 | malign | |
| #83422 | deathly | |
| #84995 | ruinous | |
| #101921 | unwholesome | |
| #114245 | baleful | |
| #132519 | baneful | |
| #177128 | perverting | |
| #196741 | unhealthful | |
| #227568 | noisome | |
| #245384 | pestilent | |
| #264537 | pestilential |
How to use pernicious in a sentence?
This study highlights that illicit financial flows are pervasive and pernicious in the developing world.
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.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro:
(That was) a grave diplomatic mistake. Exxon Mobil is behind all this, i hope... the Guyanese president can reflect and take the necessary steps for a process of dialogue and abandon grandiloquent discourse and stop listening to the bad, pernicious and wrong advice from Exxon Mobil and the officials it has bought.
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.
Critical race theory is a grave threat to the American way of life, it divides Americans by race and traffics in the pernicious concepts of race essentialism, racial stereotyping, and race-based segregation—all under a false pursuit of 'social justice.'.
Translations for pernicious
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- гибелен, пагубенBulgarian
- bösartig, perniziös, schädlich, tödlich, verderblichGerman
- θανατηφόρος, ολέθριοςGreek
- perniciosoSpanish
- tuhoisa, haitallinen, turmiollinen, tappavaFinnish
- malsain, nuisible, dangereux, pernicieux, nocif, délétèreFrench
- sgriosailScottish Gaelic
- हानिकारकHindi
- jahatIndonesian
- perniciosoItalian
- 有害なJapanese
- погубенMacedonian
- schadelijk, dodelijk, destructiefDutch
- zgubny, szkodliwy, groźnyPolish
- dăunător, vătămător, perniciosRomanian
- вредный, пагубный, гибельный, тлетворныйRussian
- muzır, ölümcül, zararlı, habis, pernisiyözTurkish
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