Deleterious

Word DELETERIOUS
Character 11
Hyphenation del e te ri ous
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Deleterious"

What do we mean by deleterious?

Having a harmful effect; injurious. adjective

Having the quality of destroying life; noxious; poisonous: as, a deleterious plant.

Hurtful in character or quality; injurious; pernicious; mischievous; unwholesome: as, a deleterious practice; deleterious food.

Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious adjective

Harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way (as for example deleterious effects, deleterious to health). adjective

Harmful to living things adjective

Harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way.

Having lower fitness.

Adjective 1 - having a harmful effect, eg to health 2 - the panicky paranoid state of mind which inspires one to go through old emails, texts, etc, deleting anything which may be vaguely incriminating Urban Dictionary

Causing harm or damage. Urban Dictionary

(Del-a-TARY) The fucking sweetest metal band.....ever Urban Dictionary

Dry or Difficult Material impossible to compact. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Deleterious

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The word "deleterious" in example sentences

Having publicly deprecated the impact of fiscal policy and warned of the long term deleterious effects of climbing public debt, of course, the Federal Reserve and/or the Bank of England cannot now reverse course and credibly back more fiscal stimulus. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And there are plenty of studies that show that punishment has long-term deleterious effects on children, whereas .... ❋ Unknown (2006)

But unfortunately, we've had a cycle of this and it doesn't stop the real problem, and that is simply that the Mexican government has a policy of avoiding domestic reform by exporting human capital at the rate of one or two million illegals a year, and it's in the long term deleterious for Mexico, because they don't face up to the problems they have for providing security and prosperity for their own people. ❋ Unknown (2003)

While much of this is understandable, there needs to be some stepping back so that there are no long-term deleterious results from this contretemps. [email protected] (2010)

The authors speculate that high calcium levels may be involved in processes that take a longer time to cause harm, such as the calcification of blood vessels or soft tissues, while low calcium levels may cause short-term deleterious effects such as heart rhythm abnormalities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Set in 1974's Central America, in a war-weary time at the tail end of the Vietnam Conflict, Peace Walker will further explore the philosophical and political ramifications of war as commerce, as well as its longterm deleterious effects on society, the economy, and ourselves. ❋ PS3 News PS3NEWSCOM 20521 (2010)

Heavy-handed government intervention without regard for human dignity produces long-term deleterious effects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Logging them would only disturb this process with long-term deleterious effects to the ecosystem. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The real critical issue that everyone is struggling with is, What about the potential long-term deleterious effects of ART that might override the beneficial effects?" says Fauci. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I firmly believe that his enlargement of government will create a drag on our future progress that will have long term deleterious effects on our well being. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Closing Muhlenberg is going to have a long-term deleterious economic impact on Plainfield. ❋ Dan (2008)

They fail to see the long term deleterious effects of further debasement of American credibility and integrity. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"Heavy-handed government intervention without regard for human dignity produces long-term deleterious effects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right. ❋ Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (1920)

Astonishment and terror may awhile paralyze the national spirit; the remembered miseries of civil war may render the phantom of peace so alluring as to induce many to call a deleterious intoxication felicity. ❋ Jane West (1805)

High levels of refractory elements such as rhenium can make the alloys prone to the formation of what are known as deleterious topologically close packed ❋ Unknown (2010)

David Attenborough The world's population has grown three times bigger since I started making television programmes, and the notion that you could have that vast increase in one species without having some kind of deleterious effect is obvious nonsense. ❋ Kate Kellaway (2010)

I found my girlfriend going through my phone, but [it's ok] cos I got a bit deleterious last week and wiped those [drunk text] messages to my ex from my [outbox] ❋ Jwgrooves (2010)

[Divorce] is [assumed] to have deleterious [effects] on children. ❋ Kate Hines (2008)

oh shit! is that [deletery]? :[shits] twice and dies: [fuck ya] it is. ❋ 6942042042069 (2009)

As I was [compacting] the material it was Deleterious and it refused to [harden] and became [just a mess]. ❋ Hillratt (2022)

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