What is another word for pernicious?
434 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ pɜːnˈɪʃəs], [ pɜːnˈɪʃəs], [ p_ɜː_n_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for pernicious:- all (adjective)
- bad, hurtful (adjective)
- baleful (adjective)
- baneful (adjective)
- calamitous (adjective)
- cruel (adjective)
- cursed (adjective)
- deadly (adjective)
- deleterious (adjective)
- destructive (adjective)
- evil (adjective)
- fatal (adjective)
- harmful (adjective)
- hurtful (adjective)
- inimical (adjective)
- injurious (adjective)
- insalubrious (adjective)
- lethal (adjective)
- malevolent (adjective)
- malicious (adjective)
- mephitical (adjective)
- mischievous (adjective)
- noisome (adjective)
- pestilent/pestilential (adjective)
- poison/poisonous (adjective)
- sinister (adjective)
- unsalutary (adjective)
- unwholesome (adjective)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Pernicious:
adj.
•all (adjective) •bad, hurtful (adjective)- offensive,
- ruinous,
- maleficent,
- miasmic,
- poisonous,
- pestilent,
- prejudicial,
- mortal,
- malevolent,
- nefarious,
- iniquitous,
- dangerous,
- killing,
- venomous,
- damaging,
- wicked,
- devastating,
- malicious.
- most inhuman,
- in-humane,
- re vengeful,
- more demoniac,
- most brutish,
- in human,
- in-human,
- painful,
- un natural,
- most demoniac,
- cold blooded,
- de-generate,
- in exorable,
- un-natural,
- in humane,
- un kindest,
- more hard hearted,
- un-kindest,
- un kinder,
- de generate,
- most hard hearted,
- re-vengeful,
- more brutish,
- un-kind,
- most hard-hearted,
- un-feeling,
- un-relenting,
- un-kinder,
- more hard-hearted,
- un feeling,
- flinty,
- hard hearted,
- un kind,
- monstrous,
- un relenting,
- in-exorable.
- more slaying,
- most death-dealing,
- more carcinogenic,
- most slaying,
- more killing,
- de-stroying,
- most killing,
- most deathdealing,
- most carcinogenic,
- murderous,
- more death-dealing,
- de stroying,
- deathdealing,
- more destroying,
- more mortiferous,
- most death dealing,
- more deathdealing,
- most mortiferous,
- more death dealing,
- most destroying,
- death dealing.
- most nocent,
- pre judicious,
- pre-judicial,
- most ruining,
- more prejudicious,
- more nocent,
- most prejudicious,
- more ruining,
- pre-judicious,
- pre judicial.
- in curable,
- illstarred,
- ill-starred,
- illfated,
- in evitable,
- ill starred,
- in-evitable,
- in-curable,
- ill fated.
- un juster,
- more unconducive,
- opprobrious,
- un justest,
- un conducive,
- unconducive,
- most libeling,
- un-juster,
- un-just,
- un-justest,
- most unconducive,
- un just,
- un-conducive,
- more libeling.
- most dickens,
- most illbehaved,
- mis behaving,
- more ill behaved,
- ex-asperating,
- mis-behaving,
- more dickens,
- most rascally,
- impish,
- most ill behaved,
- most vexing,
- most exasperating,
- most ill-behaved,
- holy terror,
- ill behaved,
- more misbehaving,
- more vexing,
- most misbehaving,
- pre carious,
- more rascally,
- more illbehaved,
- ex asperating,
- more rascal,
- more exasperating,
- most rascal,
- mischievous,
- more ill-behaved,
- pre-carious,
- illbehaved,
- teasing.
- more tainting,
- most contaminating,
- dis eased,
- dis-eased,
- most tainting,
- more pestilent,
- more contaminating.
- most infective,
- more infective,
- infective,
- more toxiferous,
- most miasmatic,
- more septic,
- most toxiferous,
- most septic,
- more miasmatic.
n.
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- hazardous,
- unsafe,
- perilous,
- risky,
- disastrous.
Other synonyms:
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- Poisoned.
- polluted,
- iii,
- bitter,
- destroyer,
- brutally,
- grievance,
- life-threatening,
- disadvantageous,
- damnable,
- catastrophic,
- adverse,
- counter-productive,
- bad,
- sickening,
- odious,
- impairment,
- distressful,
- badly,
- elusive,
- debased,
- terrible,
- repulsive,
- criminally,
- corruption,
- unhygienic,
- despicable,
- dreadful,
- degeneracy,
- deathly,
- sneaky,
- counterproductive,
- harmfulness,
- ill,
- sinfulness,
- perniciousness,
- unhealthy,
- Sinisterly,
- hateful,
- Scathful,
- roguishly,
- iniquity,
- internecine,
- execrable,
- spiteful,
- not good,
- corrosive,
- sin,
- maliciously,
- savage,
- disservice,
- abominable,
- disastrously,
- wound,
- abhorrent,
- viciously,
- obnoxiously,
- Nocuous,
- infernal,
- cataclysmic,
- invidious,
- dead,
- harm,
- illy,
- murderer,
- unhappily,
- disadvantageously,
- furtive,
- injustice,
- fell,
- diabolic,
- veneniferous,
- nasty,
- unhealthful,
- blacken,
- crippling,
- inauspiciously,
- atrocious,
- severely,
- adversely,
- hideous,
- wrongly,
- awful,
- vitiated,
- mischievousness,
- prejudicially,
- base,
- unpleasantly,
- depravity,
- repugnant,
- detrimentally,
- injuriousness,
- unrighteous,
- calamitously,
- poorly,
- tumbledown,
- venenous,
- meanly,
- disadvantage,
- inadequately,
- rotten,
- disgusting,
- offensively,
- venomously,
- swart,
- foul,
- sinfully,
- damagingly,
- detriment,
- hurtfulness,
- outrageous,
- injuriously,
- suicidal,
- mischief,
- unfortunately,
- underhand,
- wickedness,
- distressing,
- mischievously,
- wickedly,
- dire,
- corroding,
- feral,
- villainous,
- sadly,
- evilly,
- Malignly,
- unfavourable,
- horrid,
- brutal,
- corruptive,
- unluckily,
- awfully,
- Assassin,
- Scatheful,
- sinful,
- injury,
- deleteriously,
- repellent,
- mischief-making,
- hurtfully,
- misbegotten,
- distastefully,
- balefully,
- loathsome,
- malignancy,
- ominously,
- tragic,
- naughtily,
- threateningly,
- killer,
- ominous,
- unwholesome,
- vile,
- treacherous,
- spitefully,
- inconveniently,
- horrible,
- damage,
- accursed,
- bruise,
- harmfully,
- revolting,
- detestable,
- Venenate,
- painfully,
- vicious,
- nauseous,
- perniciously,
- guiltily,
- vice,
- Disserviceable,
- balefulness,
- nastily,
- poisonously,
- Deathful,
- dreadfully.
Paraphrases for Pernicious:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
deleterious, noxious.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
insidious, wicked, malicious, fatal, counterproductive, nefarious, hazardous, catastrophic, ruinous, heinous, malign, prejudicial, perverted, dire, perilous, deadly, inclement, unhealthy, ominous, lethal, egregious, disadvantageous, bad, horrendous, fateful, sinister, warped, abominable, disruptive, unfortunate, dreadful, crippling, odious, reprehensible, virulent, unfavourable, ill, unholy, unsound, kinky, ill-fated, obnoxious.
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Other Related
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Adjective
perverse, disastrous, detrimental, destructive, adverse, devastating, dangerous, calamitous, poisonous, malignant, vicious, undesirable, evil, negative.
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Antonyms for Pernicious:
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adj.
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bad, hurtful
kind, good, advantageous, lovable, helpful, beneficial, harmless, wholesome, nonpoisonous, Assisting, healthy, innocuous, loving, benevolent.
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Other antonyms:
remedial, benignant, inoffensive, favorable, nonfatal, profitable, salubrious, nonpolluting, nonlethal, secure, nondestructive, safe, salutary, nonvenomous, healthful, anodyne, useful, rejuvenating, serviceable, innocent, life-giving, invigorating, palliative, curative, noninfectious, Hurtless, beneficent, noncorrosive, nontoxic, propitious, sound.
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bad, hurtful