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Pernicious
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What's The Definition Of Pernicious?
[adj] working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
[adj] exceedingly harmful Synonyms | Synonyms for Pernicious: baneful | deadly | harmful | insidious | noxious | pestilent | subtle Related Terms | Find terms related to Pernicious: baleful | baneful | brutal | corroding | corrosive | corrupting | corruptive | counterproductive | damaging | deadly | death-bringing | deathful | deathly | deleterious | destructive | detrimental | devastating | disadvantageous | disserviceable | distressing | fatal | feral | harmful | hurtful | injurious | internecine | killing | lethal | malefic | maleficent | malevolent | malign | malignant | miasmatic | miasmic | mischievous | mortal | noisome | noxious | ominous | pestiferous | pestilent | pestilential | poisonous | prejudicial | ruinous | savage | scatheful | sinister | swart | toxic | venenate | veneniferous | venenous | venomous | vicious | virulent See Also | Pernicious In Webster's Dictionary \Per*ni"cious\, a. [L. pernix, -icis.]
Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] --Milton.
\Per*ni"cious\, a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. {Nuisance}, {Necromancy}.] Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. --Shak. Pernicious to his health. --Prescott. Syn: Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous. -- {Per*ni"cious*ly}, adv., -- {Per*ni"cious*ness}, n. |
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