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Synonyms 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.
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:
pernicious, 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, pernicious, 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
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?
The wage gap is a persistent, pernicious problem, and it has been around for awhile, we still have a lot to do to change it, but this is an excellent step forward.
I believe woke ideology is pernicious. I believe what’s at stake is not just ‘My policies are good,’ we should not all be suffering under the cloak of wokeness. … This issue with Disney is a good example of that. … They were basically a law unto themselves, and they got away with it for a long time because they were so powerful. They were the 800-pound gorilla, but they made the mistake of trying to stick their nose into sensitive matters involving children, involving education, and involving family.
He is unifying us. Because we are all getting really, really sick of being told we are a bunch of racist rubes. He has gotten to the point where he is actually inviting outside consultants to tell us that we suck. It is all part of his greater pernicious attitude towards America, we can no longer think we are exceptional because that is racist and xenophobic. Even patriotism stands out as an anomaly. The flag is racist, apple pie is racist. We have seen the stories. ‘America last’ is our penance for being ‘America first.’.
I'm deeply concerned about the availability of menthol-flavored cigarettes, i believe these menthol-flavored products represent one of the most common and pernicious routes by which kids initiate on combustible cigarettes.
The unlimited amounts of money flooding our political system from a narrow and immensely wealthy slice of American society is the most pernicious internal peril threatening the fundamental tenets of economic, political, moral and social justice and, not least, the fairness and vibrancy of our representative democracy.
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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