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单词 deleterious
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deleteriousadj.

Brit. /ˌdɛlᵻˈtɪərɪəs/, U.S. /ˌdɛləˈtɪriəs/
Forms: 1500s deletorious, 1600s 1800s deliterious, 1600s– deleterious.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin deleterius , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin deleterius (see deletery adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare earlier deletery adj.With the form deletorious compare -orious suffix, and also post-classical Latin deletorius harmful (16th–17th cent.), probably an alteration of, or error for, deleterius.
1. Causing physical harm or damage to a person or thing; detrimental to life or health; harmful; noxious.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [adjective]
evilc1000
unsete1387
pestilenta1398
pestilentiala1398
unhealfulc1400
unthendec1425
unsetyc1440
unwholesomec1455
ill1488
pestifere1490
contagious1495
infectious1534
pestiferous1538
unhealthsome1544
unkindlyc1570
deletery1576
deleterious1587
bad1589
unhealthful1598
unsound1598
unhealthy1600
sickly1604
deleterial1621
tetrous1637
insalubrious1638
unseasoned1638
cankered1645
healthless1650
insalutary1694
maliferous1727
insanous1742
unsalubrious1781
unsanitary1872
insanitary1874
devitalizing1875
antihygienic1876
unhygienic1883
unhealthy-looking1890
1587 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnius Herbal for Bible xli. 207 The leaues of Boxe be deletorious [L. deletoriae], poisonous, deadlie, and to the bodie of man very noisome, dangerous and pestilent.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. vii. 119 Deleterious it [sc. the Basilisk] may bee at some distance and destructive without a corporall contaction. View more context for this quotation
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature III. 387 No plant is absolutely deleterious to animal life. Poison is only a relative term.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV lii. 97 'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, For tea and coffee leave us much more serious.
1971 Amer. Biol. Teacher 33 49/2 As soon as the environment changes, for climatic or biotic reasons,..a previously deleterious mutation may become beneficial.
2015 Green Parent Apr. 38/1 Given her sweet tooth, Olivia sought ways to satisfy her cravings without all the deleterious effects of sugar.
2. Having an adverse effect on the state or condition of a person, society, etc.; mentally, emotionally, or morally damaging.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [adjective] > morally
balefulc1175
contagiousc1440
deleterious1630
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious > harmful or pernicious
baleOE
balefulc1175
venomousc1290
contagiousc1440
pestiferous1458
pestilent?a1475
perniciousc1475
pestilential1531
pestilentious1533
plaguey1574
deleterious1630
unedifying1641
perniciable1656
inedifying1659
unimproving1747
insalutary1836
unsalvatory1850
1630 S. N. in Panacea (following title page) What Magicke-spell, or strong Inuocatiue, Could euer (yet) charme deleterious Tongues?
1788 A. Jardine Lett. from Barbary, France, &c. II. xxxii. 338 We see it..in the division of offices and classes of people, in fomenting a certain deleterious spirit of jealous distinction.
1858 Harper's Mag. Mar. 559/1 There is nothing more deleterious to our national character than the growing tendency to regard Washington as the Greeks did Achilles, and make him a demi-god in imagination.
1860 R. W. Emerson Power in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 57 Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
1942 ‘M. Fitt’ Requiem for Robert (1948) viii. 211 We cautioned him to watch carefully over her influence on the child; but neither he nor we..could see that it was in any way deleterious.
2017 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 10 Nov. 19 A controversial book that argues pro-Israel interests have a disproportionate, deleterious impact on US policy.

Derivatives

deleˈteriously adv. in a way which causes harm to a person or thing.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [adverb]
evilc1275
balefullya1375
harmfullyc1374
teenfullya1375
wickedlya1375
unsoundlyc1400
prejudicially1467
ill1483
mischievously1512
pestilently1528
badly1580
noisomely1589
infectiously1609
prejudiciously1614
evilly1631
damageably1648
deleteriously1657
disserviceablya1670
noxiously1755
injuriously1809
nocuously1847
damagingly1854
banefully1865
detrimentally1879
damnously1884
the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [adverb]
uncleanlyc1438
unwholesomelyc1455
pestilentially1643
unhealthily1644
deleteriously1657
unhealthfully1677
unphysically1751
unhygienically1861
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adverb] > harmfully or perniciously
pestilently1528
perniciously1533
deleteriously1657
1657 W. Carr tr. L. Rivière Universal Body Physick ii. §1. vi. 83 Pestilent disease is that which is malignantly and deleteriously qualified, and is impartial to all.
1892 W. B. Scott Autobiogr. Notes I. i. 15 David was certainly deleteriously influenced by studying these able but imperfect artists.
2019 Stirling Observer (Nexis) 1 Mar. 23 Global warming may also be deleteriously affecting the invertebrate life that curlews and the likes of lapwings depend upon.
deleˈteriousness n. deleterious or harmful nature.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [noun]
grievousness1303
noyfulnessa1398
fatality1490
harmfulnessa1586
balefulness1590
illnessc1595
offensiveness1618
disserviceableness1635
injuriousness1649
fatalness1652
noxiousness1655
prejudicialness1655
deleteriousness1758
vice1837
disutility1879
nocuousness1894
disvalue1925
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > quality
loathnessc1175
grievousness1303
malicea1382
noyfulnessa1398
mischievousness1567
harmfulnessa1586
balefulness1590
illnessc1595
hurt1608
hurtfulness1611
mischief1646
noxiousness1655
deleteriousness1758
maleficence1796
vice1837
bale-fire1855
disutility1879
nocuousness1894
disvalue1925
1758 J. Wood Suppl. to Treat. Farriery 71 I should be glad to know what brings on this Deleteriousness, if it does not proceed from the irritating Property of the Purge.
1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 29 July (1964) I. 316 I have no doubts on the deleteriousness of classical education.
2014 R. N. López Hist. Family Planning Twentieth-cent. Peru iii. 69 Both these cases highlight the power experts had to influence the application of the law, either by disregarding standards..or by downplaying the deleteriousness of illegal activities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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