What are some alternative words for damaging?
Synonyms for damaging
ˈdæm ɪ dʒɪŋ
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Princeton's WordNet
damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious(adj)
(sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury
"damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
Synonyms:
negative, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudiciousAntonyms:
harmless, constructivedamaging, negative(adj)
designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
"negative criticism"
Synonyms:
prejudicious, negative, negatively charged, detrimental, minus, electronegative, prejudicial, disconfirmingAntonyms:
constructive, harmless
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "damaging":
harmful, detrimental, injurious, prejudicial, adverse, destructive, devastating, pernicious, harming, negative, deleterious, damaged, noxious, disastrous
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#2605 | negative | |
#5680 | adverse | |
#6259 | damaged | |
#7996 | minus | |
#9672 | harmful | |
#13351 | destructive | |
#14517 | damaging | |
#15555 | devastating | |
#20371 | detrimental | |
#22839 | disastrous | |
#31651 | noxious | |
#38984 | harming | |
#41054 | prejudicial | |
#42095 | injurious | |
#43999 | deleterious | |
#48711 | pernicious | |
#239284 | electronegative |
How to use damaging in a sentence?
When atmospheric moisture is abundant, these droplets combine with it and fall as acid rain, damaging plants and accelerating the rusting of metal objects such as cars, industrial and farm equipment, and building components.
The Democratic National Committee's decision to attack the campaign that figured out the problem, rather than go after the vendor that made the mistake, is profoundly damaging to the party's Democratic process.
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
If they don't deal with us, or reject the platform, that could even lead to a split, greatly damaging Jobbik.
Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams:
There are people that their only reason for being here is disruption, disorder, chaos, hurting people and damaging property, those are the only people at this point that are giving us any kind of trouble at all.
Translations for damaging
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- perjudicialCatalan, Valencian
- injurioso, dañino, lesivoSpanish
- vahingollinenFinnish
- מזיקה, מזיקHebrew
- lesivo, dannosoItalian
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