Definitions for Pernicious
pərˈnɪʃ əsper·ni·cious

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilentadjective

   exceedingly harmful

2. insidious, pernicious, subtleadjective

   working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

   "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 3 votes

1. perniciousadjective

   Causing much harm in a subtle way.

2. perniciousadjective

   Causing death or injury; deadly.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. PERNICIOUSadjective

   Etymology: perniciosus, Lat. pernicieux, Fr.

   1. Mischievous in the highest degree; destructive.

   To remove all out of the church, whereat they shew themselves to be sorrowful, would be, as we are persuaded, hurtful, if not pernicious thereunto. Richard Hooker, b. iv. s. 10.

   I call you servile ministers,
   That have with two pernicious daughters join’d
   Your high engender’d battles, ’gainst a head
   So old and white as this. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Let this pernicious hour
   Stand ay accursed in the kalendar! William Shakespeare.

   2. [ Pernix, Latin.]Quick. An use which I have found only in John Milton, and which, as it produces an ambiguity, ought not to be imitated.

   Part incentive reed
   Provide, pernicious with one touch to fire. John Milton.

WikipediaRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Pernicious

   Pernicious is a Thai-American supernatural horror film directed by James Cullen Bressack, who also wrote the story along with co-writer Taryn Hillin. The film stars Ciara Hanna, Emily O'Brien, and Jackie Moore.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 2 votes

1. Perniciousadjective

   quick; swift (to burn)

2. Perniciousadjective

   having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked

3. Etymology: [L. pernix, -icis.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Pernicious

   per-nish′us, adj. killing utterly: hurtful: destructive: highly injurious.—adv. Perni′ciously.—n. Perni′ciousness. [Fr.,—L. perniciosus—per, completely, nex, necis, death by violence.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. pernicious

   very dangerous or harmful, especially to someone’s moral character; highly injurious or destructive : DEADLY; adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, hurtful,ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, prejudicial, wicked;having a very harmful effect or influence:offensive,fatal,toxic,poisonous,malicious,malign,malignant,malevolent,venomous,causing insidious harm or ruin;hurtful,ruinous,noisome,maleficent,in the sense of bad,sharmful,disastrous,unhealthy,disadvantageous,in the sense of baleful,menacing, or vindictive,threatening,frightening,forbidding,intimidating,sinister,ominous,pernicious (formal),intimidatory,minatory,bodeful,louring or lowering,minacious,in the sense of baneful,calamitous;Extremely destructive or harmful:pestilent, pestilential, virulent.Having the capability or effect of damaging irreparably:destructive, ruinous. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way:insidious,

   Since every big chipmaker uses someAmerican tools,the effectis to freeze Huawei out completely. The Chinese giant denounced a “pernicious” decision that “threatens to undermine the entire industry worldwide”

   
   

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Pernicious in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Pernicious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Pernicious in a Sentence

1. John Lovell:

   The military has a very specific and strategic job, and that's to keep our country safe, and when you thrust them in to be the front line of a sociological experiment which has a pernicious ideology that makes people hate the United States, a soldier can very quickly start to despise the very thing he's supposed to be protecting.

2. Greg Gutfeld:

   He is unifying us. Because we are all getting really, really sick of being told we are a bunch of racist rubes. He has gotten to the point where he is actually inviting outside consultants to tell us that we suck. It is all part of his greater pernicious attitude towards America, we can no longer think we are exceptional because that is racist and xenophobic. Even patriotism stands out as an anomaly. The flag is racist, apple pie is racist. We have seen the stories. ‘America last’ is our penance for being ‘America first.’.

3. Tom Cardamone:

   This study highlights that illicit financial flows are pervasive and pernicious in the developing world.

4. Paul Kirk:

   The unlimited amounts of money flooding our political system from a narrow and immensely wealthy slice of American society is the most pernicious internal peril threatening the fundamental tenets of economic, political, moral and social justice and, not least, the fairness and vibrancy of our representative democracy.

5. Ron DeSantis:

   I believe woke ideology is pernicious. I believe what’s at stake is not just ‘My policies are good,’ we should not all be suffering under the cloak of wokeness. … This issue with Disney is a good example of that. … They were basically a law unto themselves, and they got away with it for a long time because they were so powerful. They were the 800-pound gorilla, but they made the mistake of trying to stick their nose into sensitive matters involving children, involving education, and involving family.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Pernicious
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pernicious
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Pernicious
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernicious
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Pernicious
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Pernicious