deleteriously
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9.0
- adverb
- /ˌdɛlɪˈtɪəriəsli/
- Formal
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perjudicialmente
- Protecting the public's health from WNV may involve unavoidable trade-offs, but deleteriously contaminating the environment to the detriment of others need not be one of them.
- deleteriously affect
Examples
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Excessive screen time might deleteriously affect children's attention spans and learning ability.
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Conversely, the U.S. government is constituted as deleteriously violent, at fault for the Creek War, and self-aggrandizing.
Academic text (2009) -
This increased potency is particularly concerning in light of recent scientific findings that marijuana use deleteriously affects brain development, particularly in areas related to mood, reward, and learning.
Blog text (10) -
Today's child protection agencies are grossly underfunded and deleteriously understaffed.
Blog text (2) -
Inappropriate levels of reverberation and/or noise can deleteriously affect speech perception, reading/spelling ability, classroom behavior, attention, concentration, and educational achievement. (p. 1)
Academic text (2013) -
Exposure to high levels of pollution can deleteriously impact a person's health over time.
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Poor nutrition can deleteriously influence a student's performance in school and overall well-being.
Synonyms
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3.3
In a way that causes harm or makes something worse
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4.9
In a way that causes harm
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7.5
In a way you cannot fix or make right
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5.6
In a way that causes great harm or failure
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4.2
In a way that causes harm or damage
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6.7
In a way that causes great harm or damage
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4.3
In a way that causes damage or hurts others
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7.2
In a way that harms people or things
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7.0
In a harmful or poisonous way
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4.4
In a way that causes harm or bad results
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8.9
In a way that causes harm slowly without being noticed
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7.8
In a way that causes a lot of harm or loss
In a way that causes harm to someone or something
In a way that makes things worse for someone
In a way that causes great harm
A harmful way that hurts people, animals, or plants
In a way that slowly eats away materials like metal or paint
Antonyms
How Harmful
Surface Forms
Morphology
deleteriously = deleterious (semi-transparent) = deleterious + ly
Formation of an adverb from an adjective by adding the productive English suffix '-ly' is a straightforward morphological process.
Etymology
Deleteriously is easiest to remember if you think of delete, which comes from Latin and means 'to wipe out'. So if something happens deleteriously, it harms or damages things, as if it is slowly 'wiping them out'.