deleterious
pronunciation
How to pronounce deleterious in British English:
UK [ˌdeləˈtɪəriəs]
How to pronounce deleterious in American English:
US [ˌdeləˈtɪriəs]
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- Adjective:
- harmful to living things
Word Origin
- deleterious (adj.)
- 1640s, from Medieval Latin deleterius, from Greek deleterios "noxious," from deleter "destroyer," from deleisthai "to hurt, injure." Related: Deleteriously; deleteriousness.
Example
- 1. Manipulating those prices through credit expansion or contraction has real and deleterious effects on the economy .
- 2. It is also common knowledge that milk containing deleterious organisms is an unsuitable article of food .
- 3. Such restrictions are discouraging some fdi transactions and may have even more deleterious effects with the general slowdown in the world economy .
- 4. Many slightly beneficial mutations can be lost by chance , while mildly deleterious ones can spread and become fixed in a population .
- 5. Data showing a deleterious effect might well be more likely to be written up and published than data showing nothing much .