单词 | deleterious |
释义 | deleteriousadj. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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