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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pernicious \Per*ni"cious\, adjective [L. pernix, -icis.] Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pernicious \Per*ni"cious\, adjective [L. perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. {Nuisance}, {Necromancy}.] Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. --Shak.
Pernicious to his health. --Prescott.
Syn: Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous. -- {Per*ni"cious*ly}, adverb, -- {Per*ni"cious*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pernicious
adjective
1: exceedingly harmful [syn: {baneful}, {deadly}, {pestilent}]
2: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" [syn: {insidious}, {subtle}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "pernicious": baleful, baneful, brutal, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, devastating, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, fatal, feral, harmful, hurtful, injurious, internecine, killing, lethal, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malign, malignant, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, mortal, noisome, noxious, ominous, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, prejudicial, ruinous, savage, scatheful, sinister, swart, toxic, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent
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