What does pernicious mean?
Definitions for pernicious
pərˈnɪʃ əsper·ni·cious
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word pernicious.
Princeton's WordNet
baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilentadjective
exceedingly harmful
insidious, pernicious, subtleadjective
working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
"glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
Wiktionary
perniciousadjective
Causing much harm in a subtle way.
perniciousadjective
Causing death or injury; deadly.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
PERNICIOUSadjective
Etymology: perniciosus, Lat. pernicieux, Fr.
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.Part incentive reed
Provide, pernicious with one touch to fire. John Milton.
Wikipedia
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.
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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 Dictionary
Perniciousadjective
quick; swift (to burn)
Perniciousadjective
having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked
Etymology: [L. pernix, -icis.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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 Contribution
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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Anagrams for pernicious »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pernicious in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pernicious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of pernicious in a Sentence
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.
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.
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?
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.
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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- гибелен, пагубенBulgarian
- bösartig, perniziös, schädlich, tödlich, verderblichGerman
- θανατηφόρος, ολέθριοςGreek
- perniciosoSpanish
- tuhoisa, haitallinen, turmiollinen, tappavaFinnish
- malsain, nuisible, dangereux, pernicieux, nocif, délétèreFrench
- sgriosailScottish Gaelic
- हानिकारकHindi
- jahatIndonesian
- perniciosoItalian
- 有害なJapanese
- погубенMacedonian
- schadelijk, dodelijk, destructiefDutch
- zgubny, szkodliwy, groźnyPolish
- dăunător, vătămător, perniciosRomanian
- вредный, пагубный, гибельный, тлетворныйRussian
- muzır, ölümcül, zararlı, habis, pernisiyözTurkish
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