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HOME | Definition of pernicious (PERNICIOUS, Pernicious)


    Pernicious \Per*ni"cious\, a. [L. pernix, -icis.]
    Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] --Milton.
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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    Pernicious \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.
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    Let this pernicious hour
    Stand aye accursed in the calendar. --Shak.
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    Pernicious to his health. --Prescott.
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    Syn: Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious;
    baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous.
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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    pernicious
    adj 1: exceedingly harmful [syn: baneful, deadly, pestilent]
    2: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way;
    "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
    [syn: insidious, subtle]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    57 Moby Thesaurus words for "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

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0


baneful, deadly, insidious, pestilent, subtle


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