pernicious

pernicious is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Quick; swift (to burn). Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Quick; swift (to burn).
2. adjective. Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
3. adjective. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

   "glaucoma is an insidious disease"

   "a subtle poison"

   Synonyms: insidious, subtle

4. adjective. exceedingly harmful

   Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pestilent

Synonyms

insidious, subtle, baneful, deadly, pestilent

Common word forms

perniciously, perniciousness

Words from these letters

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