Deleterious Definition

dĕlĭ-tîrē-əs
adjective
Harmful to health or well-being; injurious.
Webster's New World
Harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way (as for example deleterious effects, deleterious to health).
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Origin of Deleterious

  • From Ancient Greek δηλητήριος (dēlētērios, “noxious, deleterious”), from δηλητήρ (dēlētēr, “a destroyer”), from δηλέομαι (dēleomai, “I hurt, damage, spoil, waste”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Greek dēlētērios from dēlētēr destroyer from dēleisthai to harm

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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.

  • The lack of sleep can also have a deleterious effect on the body's ability to recuperate from exercise, injury, surgery or illness.

  • The deleterious influence of high bloodpressure has engaged the attention of physicians and pathologists in later years, and the conclusion arrived at is, that although it may arise from accidental causes, such as malcomposition of the blood, yet that in many instances it is a hereditary or family defect, and is bound up with the tendency to gout and cirrhotic degeneration of the kidney.

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