Usually means: Harmful or damaging in effect.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word deleterious:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. deleterious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deleterious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deleterious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deleterious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deleterious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deleterious, deleterious: Wordnik
  7. deleterious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deleterious: Wiktionary
  9. deleterious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deleterious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deleterious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deleterious: Dictionary.com
  13. deleterious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Deleterious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Deleterious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. deleterious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. deleterious: Rhymezone
  18. Deleterious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. deleterious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. deleterious: Free Dictionary
  21. deleterious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. deleterious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. deleterious: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deleterious: Law.com Dictionary
  2. deleterious: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. deleterious: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deleterious: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See deleteriously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (formal) Harmful, often in a subtle or unexpected way.
adjective:  (genetics) Having lower fitness.

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