Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Quick; swift (to burn).
- 2adjective
Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
- 3adjective
working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
"glaucoma is an insidious disease"
"a subtle poison"
- 4adjective
exceedingly harmful
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