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pernicious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of pernicious

causing or capable of causing harm

the pernicious effects of illegal narcotics on society

Synonyms of pernicious

adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, prejudicial, wicked

Words Related to pernicious

hostile, inimical, unfriendly

contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous

insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening

hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound

nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome

destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous

Near Antonyms of pernicious

advantageous, beneficial, useful

favorable, good, propitious

curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome

noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous

Antonyms of pernicious

anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe

Synonym Discussion of pernicious

pernicious, baneful, noxious, deleterious, detrimental mean exceedingly harmful. pernicious implies irreparable harm done through evil or insidious corrupting or undermining.

- the claim that pornography has a pernicious effect on society

baneful implies injury through poisoning or destroying.

- the baneful notion that discipline destroys creativity

noxious applies to what is both offensive and injurious to the health of a body or mind.

- noxious chemical fumes

deleterious applies to what has an often unsuspected harmful effect.

- a diet found to have deleterious effects

detrimental implies obvious harmfulness to something specified.

- the detrimental effects of excessive drinking

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