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Harmful

Harmful Meaning & Definition
Harmful Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Harmful?

[adj] constituting a disadvantage
[adj] tending to cause great harm
[adj] contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
[adj] causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"
[adj] injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"
[adj] able or likely to do harm

Synonyms | Synonyms for Harmful: abusive | adverse | bad | baneful | bruising | calumniatory | calumnious | catastrophic | corrupting | counterproductive | damaging | dangerous | deadly | defamatory | degrading | deleterious | denigrating | denigrative | denigratory | detrimental | disadvantageous | evil | hurtful | ill | inauspicious | injurious | insidious | libellous | libelous | malign | minus | mischievous | negative | nocent | pernicious | pestilent | prejudicial | prejudicious | ruinous | slanderous | stabbing | subtle | traumatic | unfavorable | unfavourable | unsafe | untoward | vesicant | vesicatory | wounding

Related Terms | Find terms related to Harmful: adverse | antagonistic | bad | bad for | baleful | baneful | bitchy | conflicting | contaminated | contrary | corroding | corrosive | corrupting | corruptive | counter | counteractive | counterproductive | cussed | damaging | dangerous | deadly | deleterious | destructive | detrimental | difficult | disadvantageous | disserviceable | distressing | evil | foul | hard | hateful | hazardous | hostile | hurtful | ill | in opposition | inimical | iniquitous | injurious | insalubrious | insanitary | invidious | lethal | malefic | maleficent | malevolent | malicious | malign | malignant | mean | mischievous | miserable | morbific | nasty | noisome | not easy | noxious | ominous | opposed | opposing | opposite | ornery | pathogenic | peccant | pernicious | pestiferous | poisonous | polluted | prejudicial | rigorous | risky | scatheful | septic | sinister | stressful | tainted | toxic | troublesome | troublous | trying | unadvantageous | unfavorable | unhealthful | unhealthy | unhygienic | unprofitable | unrewarding | unsafe | unsanitary | untoward | unwholesome | useless | venenate | veneniferous | venenous | venomous | vicious | virulent | wicked | worthless | wretched

See Also | destructive | harmful | inexpedient | inopportune | noxious | offensive | painful | toxic | unwholesome

Harmful In Webster's Dictionary

\Harm"ful\, a. Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. `` Most harmful hazards.'' --Strype. --{Harm"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Harm"ful*ness}, n.

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