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Learn the meaning, synonyms, and usage of the word pernicious, which means highly injurious or destructive, or wicked. See examples of pernicious in sentences and related phrases and articles.
Pernicious means having a very harmful effect or influence. Learn how to use this formal adjective with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus and translations in different languages.
Pernicious means having a very harmful effect or influence. Learn how to use this formal adjective in different contexts and languages with Cambridge Dictionary.
Find 90 words that mean harmful, evil, or corrupting, and their opposites, in this online thesaurus. Learn how to use pernicious and its synonyms in different contexts and sentences.
- Some common synonyms of pernicious are baneful, deleterious, detrimental, and noxious. While all these words mean "exceedingly harmful," pernicious...
- The words baneful and pernicious are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, baneful implies injury through poisoning or destroying. // th...
- While in some cases nearly identical to pernicious, deleterious applies to what has an often unsuspected harmful effect. // a diet found to have de...
- The meanings of detrimental and pernicious largely overlap; however, detrimental implies obvious harmfulness to something specified. // the detrime...
- While the synonyms noxious and pernicious are close in meaning, noxious applies to what is both offensive and injurious to the health of a body or...
adjective. causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie. Synonyms: malicious, noxious, baneful, damaging, destructive, deleterious, detrimental, harmful. deadly; fatal: a pernicious disease. Synonyms: lethal. Obsolete. evil; wicked. pernicious. / pəˈnɪʃəs / adjective. wicked or malicious.
Definitions of pernicious. adjective. exceedingly harmful. synonyms: baneful, deadly, pestilent. noxious. injurious to physical or mental health. adjective. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way. synonyms: insidious, subtle. harmful. causing or capable of causing harm. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Pernicious."
Pernicious means having a very harmful effect on somebody/something, especially in a way that is not easily noticed. Learn how to use this formal adjective with pictures, pronunciation and usage notes.
