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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. pernicious

   Pernicious generally refers to something that is extremely harmful, destructive, or deadly in a subtle or gradual way. It can pertain to actions, behaviors, diseases, or ideas that might not seem dangerous at the start but can cause serious damage over time.

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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1. superionic

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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. Bill Burns:

   There is the particularly pernicious practice of going after individual career officers, either because they worked on controversial issues in the last administration, or as in the case of Masha Yovanovitch, a terrific apolitical career diplomat who was doing her job extraordinarily well, were attacked, deeply unfairly, for political reasons, we have career people who did their jobs, followed their instructions, served their country loyally, and they are being treated as pawns in a political struggle.

2. Samuel Tombs:

   The MPC's decision to stand pat today ... looks set to repeated over the next few months while inflation hovers near zero, but by the summer, it should be clear that the UK's deflation is neither pernicious nor long-lasting.

3. David Asher:

   The coverup continues via refusal to allow WHO access, accept CDC offers to assist, and simply tell the truth of this pandemic’s endemic dangerous, incessant and pernicious injurious traits, which has caused huge injury to the American people and citizens of the world, Chinese citizens included, does anyone sane doubt that?

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. The Russian foreign ministry:

   In our view, the United States and other NATO members should have long abandoned the pernicious one-sided steps in the missile defence field. They wouldn't have to worry about the consequences then.

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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. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pernicious
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=pernicious
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pernicious