deleterious

1. 1.

   harmful to living things

   “deleterious chemical additives”

   Synonymshurtfulinjurious

   Similarharmful

Questions about deleterious

What does deleterious mean?

deleterious means "harmful to living things".

How many syllables are in deleterious?

deleterious has 5 syllables: del-e-ter-i-ous. The stress falls on "ter". In IPA it is /ˌdɛləˈtɪɹiəs/.

What is another word for deleterious?

Close synonyms include hurtful, injurious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deleterious a common word?

deleterious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.