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adjective
adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, consuming, corroding, corrosive, damaging, deadly, disadvantageous, disserviceable, envenomed, fatal, foul, harmful, injurious to health, insalubrious, lethal, malefic, maleficent, malignant, miasmal, morbiferous, morbific, nocuous, noisome, noxious, noxius, pernicious, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, septic, toxic, unadvantageous, unfavorable, unhealthful, unhealthy, unsatisfactory, venomous, virulent, wasting
associated concepts: deleterious drug, deleterious substance
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adverse (negative), bad (inferior), detrimental, disadvantageous, disastrous, fatal, harmful, inadvisable, insalubrious, malevolent, malignant, noxious, peccant (unhealthy), pernicious, pestilent, prejudicial, toxic, virulent
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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adj.harmful.
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.
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Deleterious — Del e*te ri*ous, a. [LL. deleterius noxious, Gr. dhlhth rios, fr. dhlei^sqai to hurt, damage; prob. akin to L. delere to destroy.] Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example. {Del e*te… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Deleterious — means harmful or injurous to health.Deleterious may also refer to:* Deleterious genes … Wikipedia
deleterious — 1640s, from M.L. deleterius, from Gk. deleterios noxious, from deleter destroyer, from deleisthai to hurt, injure. Related: Deleteriously; deleteriousness … Etymology dictionary
deleterious — detrimental, *pernicious, baneful, noxious Analogous words: injuring or injurious, harming or harmful, hurting or hurtful (see corresponding verbs at INJURE): destroying or destructive (see corresponding verb DESTROY): ruining or ruinous (see… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
deleterious — [adj] harmful, damaging bad, destroying, destructive, detrimental, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, prejudicious, ruining, ruinous; concepts 537,570 Ant. aiding, assisting, helpful … New thesaurus
deleterious — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ causing harm or damage. DERIVATIVES deleteriously adverb. ORIGIN Greek d l t rios noxious … English terms dictionary
deleterious — [del΄ə tir′ē əs] adj. [Gr dēlētērios < dēlēter, a destroyer < dēleisthai, to injure < IE base * del , to split] harmful to health or well being; injurious SYN. PERNICIOUS deleteriously adv. deleteriousness n … English World dictionary
deleterious — adjective Etymology: Greek dēlētērios, from dēleisthai to hurt Date: 1643 harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way < deleterious effects > < deleterious to health > Synonyms: see pernicious • deleteriously adverb • deleteriousness … New Collegiate Dictionary
deleterious — deleteriously, adv. deleteriousness, n. /del i tear ee euhs/, adj. 1. injurious to health: deleterious gases. 2. harmful; injurious: deleterious influences. [1635 45; < Gk deletérios destructive, adj. deriv. of deletér destroyer, equiv. to dele… … Universalium
deleterious — Injurious; noxious; harmful. [G. deleterios, fr. deleomai, to injure] * * * del·e·te·ri·ous .del ə tir ē əs adj harmful often in a subtle or an unexpected way <the deleterious effects of radiation and chemotherapy on the marrow (Christine… … Medical dictionary
