pernicious | Definition of pernicious

Synonyms and Antonyms of pernicious

causing or capable of causing harm

the pernicious effects of illegal narcotics on society

Synonyms of pernicious

adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, prejudicial, wicked

Words Related to pernicious

hostile, inimical, unfriendly

contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous

insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening

hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound

nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome

destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous

Near Antonyms of pernicious

advantageous, beneficial, useful

favorable, good, propitious

curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome

noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous

Antonyms of pernicious

anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe