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Word | Pernicious |
exceedingly harmful / Quick / very destructive / having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way. / causing great harm or damage often in a way that is not easily seen or noticed, | |
Usage | ⇒ Smoking is pernicious to health ⇒ The Athenians argued that Socrates’ teachings had a pernicious effect on young and susceptible minds; therefore, they condemned him to death. ⇒ More pernicious still has been the acceptance of the author's controversial ideas by the general public. ⇒ the pernicious influences of the mass media ⇒ that's just a pernicious lie |
Synonyms | harmful, deleterious, destructive, noxious, injurious, detrimental, baleful, damaging, deadly, fatal, virulent, baneful, evil, poisonous, toxic, hurtful, lethal, malignant, ruinous, bad, |
Antonyms | healthful, good, harmless, healthy, innocuous, beneficial, benignant, curative, favorable, helpful, remedial, salubrious, wholesome, benign, advantageous, anodyne, beneficent, hurtless, innocent, inoffensive, |
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