All cankerous synonyms
can·ker·ous
C c adj cankerous
- hurtful — causing hurt or injury; injurious; harmful.
- troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
- hostile — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
- adverse — Adverse decisions, conditions, or effects are unfavourable to you.
- corrosive — A corrosive substance is able to destroy solid materials by a chemical reaction.
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- abrasive — Someone who has an abrasive manner is unkind and rude.
- antagonistic — If a person is antagonistic to someone or something, they show hatred or dislike towards them.
- caustic — Caustic chemical substances are very powerful and can dissolve other substances.
- contrary — Ideas, attitudes, or reactions that are contrary to each other are completely different from each other.
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- derogatory — If you make a derogatory remark or comment about someone or something, you express your low opinion of them.
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- injurious — harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
- opposed — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- undermining — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
- cankered — (esp of fruit trees) affected by canker
- ulcerated — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
adjective cankerous
- disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- ulcerative — causing ulceration.