Definitions for pernicious

pernicious per·ni·cious

Spelling: [per-nish-uh s]
IPA: /pərˈnɪʃ əs/

Pernicious is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 713 anagrams from letters in pernicious (ceiinoprsu).

Definitions for pernicious

adjective

  1. causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful:
  2. deadly; fatal:
  3. Obsolete. evil; wicked.

Origin of pernicious

1515-25; Latin perniciōsus ruinous, equivalent to pernici(ēs) ruin (per- per- + -nici-, combining form of nex death, murder (stem nec-) + -iēs noun suffix) + -ōsus

Examples for pernicious

But forego, if possible, your pernicious stimulant of laudanum.

Perhaps it is in this last that it becomes our most pernicious enemy.

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

The biggest problem is not that such unfounded theories are ludicrous but that they are pernicious.

“There is a pernicious effect of money on the legislative process,” he argued.

All books which meddle with the faith are condemnable and pernicious.

He said this was to discourage that pernicious class of men, the inventors.

I spoke to my students about mobilizing against this pernicious threat to our civilization.

Pride is excellent; but even pride may sometimes be pernicious.

The nature of the harm allegedly caused by Goddard was “subtle, imperceptible and pernicious.”

Word Value for pernicious
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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