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- [per-nish-uh s]
- /pərˈnɪʃ əs/
- /pəˈnɪʃ.əs/
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- [per-nish-uh s]
- /pərˈnɪʃ əs/
Definitions of pernicious word
- adjective pernicious causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie. 1
- adjective pernicious deadly; fatal: a pernicious disease. 1
- adjective pernicious Obsolete. evil; wicked. 1
- adjective pernicious harmful 1
- adjective pernicious malicious 1
- adjective pernicious If you describe something as pernicious, you mean that it is very harmful. 0
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Origin of pernicious
First appearance:
before 1515 One of the 27% oldest English words
1515-25; < Latin perniciōsus ruinous, equivalent to pernici(ēs) ruin (per- per- + -nici-, combining form of nex death, murder (stem nec-) + -iēs noun suffix) + -ōsus -ous
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Parts of speech for Pernicious
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pernicious popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 70% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
pernicious usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for pernicious
adj pernicious
- baleful — Baleful means harmful, or expressing harmful intentions.
- baneful — destructive, poisonous, or fatal
- brutish — If you describe a person or their behaviour as brutish, you think that they are brutal and uncivilised.
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- carcinogenic — A substance that is carcinogenic is likely to cause cancer.
noun pernicious
- harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- banefulness — The state or quality of being baneful.
- deleteriousness — The quality of being deleterious.
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- maliciousness — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
adjective pernicious
- annihilative — Serving to annihilate; radically destructive.
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- coldblooded — having a body temperature that fluctuates, approximating that of the surrounding air, land, or water
- eradicative — Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
- evil — Profoundly immoral and malevolent.
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