ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsDdeleterious
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deleterious
Meaning: causing harm or damage
deleterious in a sentence
How deleterious is used in real sentences:
Staying up too late has a deleterious effect on grades.
Staying up too late has a deleterious effect on grades.
“A joint exhibition revealed that isolation had been deleterious to both schools, harming their work by preventing the exchange of methods each tradition lacked.”
— from the passage Clay and Conviction
“Such embellishment can be deleterious because it damages the neutrality on which the proceeding depends.”
— from the passage Between Speech and Judgment
“He began with the slow movement, warning that excessive volume was deleterious to its fragile opening; the melody vanished whenever the brass pressed forward.”
— from the passage The Unfinished Finale
Synonyms for deleterious
Other words for deleterious — harmful, injurious and pernicious — carry the same meaning.
- harmful
- injurious
- pernicious
Antonyms of deleterious
Words that mean the opposite of deleterious:
- beneficial
- helpful
- salubrious
Where it comes from
From Greek dēlētērios 'noxious'
Memory hook
DELETE-rious = DELETES your health.
Practice deleterious in the app