Deleterious Synonyms and Antonyms

dĕlĭ-tîrē-əs

Words Related to Deleterious

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. help
  2. detremental
  3. neurotoxic

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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