Deleterious Sentence Examples A few crops, such as mustard, seem deleterious to them. The effects of morphine are much more deleterious than those of opiumsmoking. Having a low vitamin D level can be deleterious to your health.
What part of speech is the word deleterious?
adjective
deleterious
| part of speech: | adjective |
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| related words: | evil, ill, injurious |
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| derivations: | deleteriously (adv.), deleteriousness (n.) |
What is the noun of deleterious?
Derived forms of deleterious deleteriously, adverbdeleteriousness, noun.
What is deleterious effect?
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.
What does deleterious mean?
Definition of deleterious : harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way deleterious effects deleterious to health.
What does deleterious mean in biology?
(DEH-leh-TEER-ee-us myoo-TAY-shun) A genetic alteration that increases an individual’s susceptibility or predisposition to a certain disease or disorder.
What does remember deleterious mean?
Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for deleterious seriously delete it because this virus is very harmful. 1 1. anything deleterious is so evil it originally intends to delete you completely off the surface of the earth, but it is not so successful and only brings harm to you. 0 0.
What is deleterious substance?
deleterious substance means any chemical, salt water, oilfield brine, waste oil, waste emulsified oil, basic sediment, mud or injurious substances produced or used in the drilling, development, production, transportation, refining and processing of oil, gas and/or brine mining.
Is Deleteriousness a word?
adj. Having a harmful effect; injurious: the deleterious effects of smoking. [From Greek dēlētērios, from dēlētēr, destroyer, from dēleisthai, to harm.] del′e·te′ri·ous·ly adv.
How do you use pariah in a sentence?
Pariah in a Sentence 🔉
- When the child molester was released from prison, he was treated like a pariah in his community.
- The political party views Senator Johnson as a pariah because he often votes in opposition to his own party.
