Antonyms for harm
hɑrmharm

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. harm

   Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

   Antonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

   Synonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 4 votes

1. harm

   Antonyms:
   benefit, boon, amelioration, improvement, reparation, compensation, healing, remedy

   Synonyms:
   hurt, mischief, injury, detriment, damage, evil, wrong, misfortune, ill, mishap

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Ill Health
   • Injure

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. injury, hurt, harm, traumanoun

   any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

   Synonyms:
   hurt, wound, injury, distress, detriment, accidental injury, psychic trauma, impairment, suffering, trauma, damage, scathe, combat injury

2. damage, harm, impairmentnoun

   the occurrence of a change for the worse

   Synonyms:
   equipment casualty, hurt, scathe, terms, price, legal injury, injury, disability, handicap, constipation, damage, wrong, deadening, deterioration, disablement, impairment, trauma, stultification

3. damage, harm, hurt, scatheverb

   the act of damaging something or someone

   Synonyms:
   hurt, suffering, injury, distress, detriment, price, damage, terms, legal injury, impairment, wrong, trauma, equipment casualty, scathe

4. harmverb

   cause or do harm to

   "These pills won't harm your system"

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1. harmnoun

   Synonyms:
   injury, damage, detriment, scath, mischief, misfortune

2. harmverb

   Synonyms:
   injure, hurt, damage, impair, scathe, mar, deface, abuse, misuse

How to use harm in a sentence?

1. Ralph Jones:

   My primary focus was to make sure that no harm came to my family and staff.

2. Holden Chow:

   We cherish transparency but doxxing does happen and causes severe harm to Hong KongA people.

3. Mark Twain:

   Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffers, not the state.

4. Linus Pauling, No More War!:

   Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.

5. William Shakespeare:

   Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

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