deletorious
deletorious is the alternative spelling of deleterious.
Meaning of deleterious
Adjective
deleterious (comparative more deleterious, superlative most deleterious)
- Harmful, often in a subtle or unexpected way.
- deleterious effects
- Synonyms:
- destructive, harmful, hurtful, injurious, noxious, pernicious, damaging, detrimental, inimical, mischievous
- Having lower fitness.
- A deleterious mutation
Forms of deletorious
| comparative | more deletorious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most deletorious |
Words that rhyme with deletorious
- glorious
- notorious
- uproarious
- censorious
- laborious
- memorious
- inglorious
- unglorious
- victorious
- amatorious
- desultorious
- maritorious
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Questions about deletorious
- What is deletorious the alternative spelling of?
- Deletorious is the alternative spelling of deleterious.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: deletorious (page history and authors); deleterious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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