Word Meanings - DELETERIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example. -- Del`e*te"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Del`e*te"ri*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DELETERIOUS)

• Destructive
• detrimental
• hurtful
• noxious
• injurious
• deleterious
• baleful
• baneful
• ruinous
• subversive
• Pernicious
• Hurtful
• harmful
• destructive
• deadly
• Pestiferous
• Insalubrious
• pestilential
• mephitic
• virulent
• mortiferous
• infectious
• contagious
• catching
• lethal
• morbific
• Poisonous
• Venomous
• infect ant
• vicious
• corruptive
• vitiative
• malignant
• peccant
• pestiferous

Related words: (words related to DELETERIOUS)

• MALIGNANT
  Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of
• HURTFUL
  Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome;
• BANEFUL
  Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n.
• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• DESTRUCTIVENESS
  The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.
• MEPHITIC; MEPHITICAL
  1. Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions. 2. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors. Mephitic air , carbon dioxide; -- so called because of its deadly suffocating power. See Carbonic acid,
• CATCHWORK
  A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
• INFECTIVE
  Infectious. Beau. & Fl. True love . . . hath an infective power. Sir P. Sidney.
• CATCHER
  The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, catches.
• CATCHWORD
  The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing. 3. A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as,
• VIRULENT
  1. Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury. A contagious disorder rendered more virulent by uncleanness. Sir W. Scott. 2. Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.
• CATCH TITLE
  A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.
• LETHAL
  One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.
• INFECTIOUS
  Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent. 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. The laughter
• CATCHPENNY
  Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. -- n.
• MALIGNANTLY
  In a malignant manner.
• CORRUPTIVE
  Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
• BALEFULNESS
  The quality or state of being baleful.
• CATCHDRAIN
  A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
• VENOMOUS
  Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects. 3. Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer. Venomous snake , any serpent which has poison glands and fangs,
• SCATCH
  A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
• OBNOXIOUS
  1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton.
• REINFECT
  To infect again.
• PRUINOUS
  Frosty; pruinose.
• BEAUCATCHER
  A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
• CONY-CATCH
  To deceive; to cheat; to trick. Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.
• UNDEADLY
  Not subject to death; immortal. -- Un*dead"li*ness, n. Wyclif.
• DISINFECT
  To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.
• WORD-CATCHER
  One who cavils at words.
• CONVICIOUS
  Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth .
• TORPEDO CATCHER
  A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.