Pernicious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly: a pernicious virus.
  • adj. Causing great harm; destructive: pernicious rumors.
  • adj. Archaic Evil; wicked.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Causing much harm in a subtle way.
  • adj. Causing death or injury; deadly.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Quick; swift (to burn).
  • adj. Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the property of destroying or being injurious; hurtful; destructive.
  • Wicked; malicious; evil-hearted.
  • Quick.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. exceedingly harmful
  • adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
    • Equivalent
    noxious    harmful   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    quick    hurtful    ruinous    noxious    destructive   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Delicious    ambitious    auspicious    capricious    delicious   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    injurious    mischievous    hurtful    immoral    destructive   
     
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