different between unhealthful vs pernicious
unhealthful
English
Etymology
un- +? healthful
Adjective
unhealthful (comparative more unhealthful, superlative most unhealthful)
- Not promoting health; detrimental to health.
- An unhealthful diet and lack of exercise are common causes for heart disease.
Synonyms
- insalubrious
Translations
unhealthful From the web:
pernicious
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French pernicios, from Latin pernici?sus (“destructive”), from pernici?s (“destruction”), from per (“through”) + nex (“slaughter, death”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??n???s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /p??n???s/
- Rhymes: -???s
Adjective
pernicious (comparative more pernicious, superlative most pernicious)
- Causing much harm in a subtle way.
- Synonym: deleterious
- Causing death or injury; deadly.
- Synonym: attery
Derived terms
- perniciousness
- perniciously
Related terms
- pernicious anemia
Translations
Anagrams
- superionic
pernicious From the web:
- what pernicious anemia
- what pernicious means
- what pernicious anemia means
- what pernicious sentence
- what pernicious mean in arabic
- what's pernicious in german
- what's pernicious vomiting
- pernicious what type of context clue
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- unhealthful vs pernicious
- depraved vs inhumane
- snappy vs vivacious
- turbulence vs uproar
- scratchy vs throaty
- disdainful vs snooty
- hasty vs headlong
- heedless vs facetious
- ditch vs crevice
- stop vs exclude
- exalted vs significant
- facsimile vs imitation
- appetite vs thirst
- disreputable vs wicked
- law vs project
- braininess vs sharpness
- sheen vs refulgence
- abounding vs numerous
- cordial vs open
- bedfellow vs paramour