different between furtive vs pernicious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French furtif (“stealthy”), from Latin f?rt?vus (“stolen”), from f?rtum (“theft”), from f?r (“thief”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??t?v/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [?f????v]
• (US) IPA^(key): [?f?.??v]

Adjective

furtive (comparative more furtive, superlative most furtive)

1. Stealthy.
2. Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p31

     But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.

Synonyms

• (stealthy): surreptitious
• See also Thesaurus:covert

Derived terms

• furtively
• furtiveness

Related terms

• ferret

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy?.tiv/

Adjective

furtive

1. feminine singular of furtif

Italian

Adjective

furtive

1. feminine plural of furtivo

Latin

Adjective

f?rt?ve

1. masculine vocative singular of f?rt?vus

References

• furtive in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• furtive in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• furtive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French pernicios, from Latin pernici?sus (“destructive”), from pernici?s (“destruction”), from per (“through”) + nex (“slaughter, death”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??n???s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??n???s/

• Rhymes: -???s

Adjective

pernicious (comparative more pernicious, superlative most pernicious)

1. Causing much harm in a subtle way.

   Synonym: deleterious
2. Causing death or injury; deadly.

   Synonym: attery

Derived terms

• perniciousness
• perniciously

Related terms

• pernicious anemia

Translations

Anagrams

• superionic