deleterious
Meaning of deleterious
adjective
- causing harm or damage.
divorce is assumed to have deleterious effects on children
mid 17th century: via medieval Latin from Greek dēlētērios ‘noxious’ + -ous.
Information about deleterious
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Hyphenation of deleterious
dele-te-ri-ous
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- deleterious is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
deleterious synonyms
Meaning hurtful:
Meaning causing or likely to cause harm:
Meaning causing physical damage:
Meaning tending to cause harm:
Meaning tending to obstruct or harm:
Meaning having a harmful effect on:
Meaning preventing success or development; harmful; unfavourable:
Meaning involving or creating unfavourable circumstances that reduce the chances of success or effectiveness:
Meaning expressing or showing a lack of approval or support:
Meaning having or marked by bad fortune; unlucky:
Meaning not wanted or desirable because harmful, objectionable, or unpleasant:
Meaning causing great and irreparable damage:
Meaning having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way:
Meaning disastrous or destructive:
deleterious antonyms
Meaning resulting in good; favourable or advantageous:
Meaning involving or creating favourable circumstances that increase the chances of success or effectiveness; beneficial:
Words that rhyme with deleterious
aerobious, amphibious, anaerobious, antiscabious, dubious, helobious, hematobious, indubious, microbious, nonamphibious, rabious, rubious, scabious, stibious, superbious, superdubious, triphibious, undubious, Delicious, Procious, acinacious, ametoecious, androdioecious, andromonoecious, appendicious, artificious, astucious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, autecious, autoecious, avaricious, bibacious, bodacious, boldacious, bowdacious, capacious, capricious, cilicious, coconscious, cogracious, conconscious, conscious, contumacious, curvacious, delicious, dicacious, diecious, dioecious
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