deleterious
/ˌdɛlɪˈtɪərɪəs
/adjective formal
Causing harm or damage: divorce is assumed to have deleterious effects on children...
- The world situation has had deleterious effects on a couple of international film festivals this week.
- And finally, it examines the deleterious effect that this might have on the performer and the people around them.
- I think, to that degree, it may have had a deleterious effect upon the medium since then.
Synonyms
harmful, damaging, detrimental, injurious, inimical, hurtful, bad, adverse, disadvantageous, unfavourable, unfortunate, undesirable;
destructive, pernicious, ruinous
Derivatives
deleteriously
- Other Faiths have other tenets, and should be allowed to practice their religion as they see fit, always providing that practice does not deleteriously affect others.
- That is, as long as adventure travel doesn't deleteriously affect the sacred traditions of the region.
- If you inherit a disease from your grandmother and it is a disease that manifests itself in the third generation, you yourself will be deleteriously affected.
Origin
Mid 17th century: via medieval Latin from Greek dēlētērios 'noxious' + -ous.
Rhymes
- galactic belt
- galactic cannibalism
- galactic center
- galactic centre
- galactic circle
- galactic cluster
- galactic concentration
- galactic coordinate
- galactic disc
- galactic disk
- galactic equator
- galactic halo
- galactic latitude
- galactic longitude
- galactic noise
- galactic nucleus
- galactico
- galactic plane
- galactic pole
- galactic system
- galactic wind
- galactin
- galactitol
- galactoboureko
- galactocele