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When you hold down the delete key on your keyboard or touchscreen, the effect—whoosh!—is instantaneous (unless your device is laggy, of course). Deleterious effects, however, are often not so obvious; deleterious is used to describe things that are harmful in ways that are unexpected, slow-acting, or not readily apparent.
Fewer examples. Synthetic detergents are affected deleteriously by the hardness of the water. Patients in country areas will be deleteriously affected by this legislation. A corporal at seventeen and captain at twenty-three, his advancement had been deleteriously rapid. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
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Define deleteriously. deleteriously synonyms, deleteriously pronunciation, deleteriously translation, English dictionary definition of deleteriously. adj. Having a harmful effect; injurious: the deleterious effects of smoking. del′e·te′ri·ous·ly adv. del′e·te′ri·ous·ness n.
Freedom from the deleterious action or habit-forming tendencies of the opiates. From Project Gutenberg. The easier an act is, the more readily, if it is deleterious, will popular sentiment build a protective wall around it. From Project Gutenberg.
Fewer examples. Synthetic detergents are affected deleteriously by the hardness of the water. Patients in country areas will be deleteriously affected by this legislation. A corporal at seventeen and captain at twenty-three, his advancement had been deleteriously rapid. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
If something is deleterious, it does harm or makes things worse. Smoking has obvious deleterious effects on your health, not to mention your social life. My parents were worried that their divorce would have a deleterious effect on us kids, but in the end it was less harmful than watching them fight all the time.
deleteriously. 2 senses: in a harmful, injurious, or hurtful manner harmful; injurious; hurtful.... Click for more definitions.
Definition of deleterious adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
deleterious. (delɪtɪəriəs ) adjective. Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it. [formal] Petty crime is having a deleterious effect on community life. Synonyms: harmful, bad, damaging, destructive More Synonyms of deleterious. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
