adj. Function: adjective
exceedingly harmful or destructive FF1C; pernicious gossip FF1E;
Synonyms: baneful, deadly, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential; compare DEADLY 1
Related Words: damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful; baleful, malefic, maleficent, malign, sinister; miasmatic, miasmic, poisonous, toxic, venomous; malignant, swart, virulent; destructive, devastating, ruinous; fatal, killing, lethal, mortal
Contrasted Words: harmless, uninjurious; nonmalignant, nonpoisonous, nontoxic
Antonyms: innocuous