Pernicious
[pə'nɪʃəs] or [pɚ'nɪʃəs]
Definition
(a.) Quick; swift (to burn).
(a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
Edited by Alexander
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Hurtful, deleterious, injurious, detrimental, baneful, baleful, prejudicial, noxious, mischievous, damaging, disadvantageous, destructive, ruinous, fatal.
Typist: Norton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hurtful, harmful, noxious, deleterious, detrimental, destructive, deadly,injurious, baneful
ANT:Beneficial, wholesome, innocuous, undetrimental, innocent, salutary
Editor: Rosanne
Definition
adj. killing utterly: hurtful: destructive: highly injurious.—adv. Perni′ciously.—n. Perni′ciousness.
Editor: Matt
Examples
- And even though the pernicious drug craving is not created, considerable harm is done to the child, because its body is left weak and non-resistant to diseases of infancy and childhood. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Despite that pernicious assumption of lassitude and indifference, which had become his second nature, he was strongly attached to his friend. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My dear, romances are pernicious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- All the other passions, besides this of interest, are either easily restrained, or are not of such pernicious consequence, when indulged. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The law, however, which obliged the farmer to exercise the trade of a corn merchant was by far the most pernicious of the two. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But though the whole debt were owing to the inhabitants of the country, it would not, upon that account, be less pernicious. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Catarrh is a very prevalent disease in America, and consequently numerous catarrh remedies have been devised, most of which contain in a disguised form the pernicious drug, cocaine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Editor: Matt