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pernicious - Dictionary definition and meaning for pernicious

PERNICIOUS

  • (adj.) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

    "glaucoma is an insidious disease", "a subtle poison"

    synonyms : insidious , subtle

    He was completely unaware of the pernicious disease eating him up from inside. -added by naila_inlas

    pernicious
    -tagged by Administrator
    insidious pest eating tomato.

  • (adj.) exceedingly harmful

    synonyms : baneful , deadly , pestilent

    She ruined his reputation with her pernicious lies. -added by naila_inlas

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

Mnemonics for pernicious

  • (Tag: ) word can be divided like per+nicious..nicious when pronounced sounds like noxious...so noxious.. ..so something harmful.....

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  • (Tag: ) it has root nec/nox..in it....means to harm..so per(PERTAINING TO)+nIC/NEC..MEANS HARM..SOMETHING PERTAINING TO HARM U.

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  • (Tag: ) Pernicious sounds like vicious in the end which means very harmful

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  • (Tag: English) sounds like perish- something that is very destructive will make you perish

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  • (Tag: Hindi) Kitna samjhaya is ladke ko PER ye NI(nahi) CIOUS(serious) hota hai...Its harmful for him

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  • (Tag: ) pernicious:it sounds like punish us..means it punish us..so it is very harmful..

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  • (Tag: Sing-songy) Something pern-icious is vi-cious and can do-you-harm...

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  • (Tag: ) PREjudicial + vICIOUS = PERNICIOUS.

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  • (Tag: Medical) Pernicious anemia is a form of anemia that was, for a long time, always extremely harmful and most of the time fatal.

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  • (Tag: Book Reference ) [my GRE book defined this as "extremely harmful; potentially causing death" So my mnemonic is: PERhaps we should not picNIC next to PERN's noxIOUS thread. -- ref. to Anne McCathy's Dragon Series.

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  • (Tag: ) Ne +Sus :Negative Sauce,so negative sauce has a harmful effect on our health

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  • (Tag: HINDI,ENGLISH) PER NIC(nikki)thO US(our) friend hai.how can he b so harmful

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