Synonyms for detrimental
ˌdɛ trəˈmɛn tldetri·men·tal

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1. detrimentaladjective

   Causing damage or harm.

   Smoking tobacco can be detrimental to your health.

   Synonyms:
   harmful, injurious

   Antonyms:
   beneficial

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1. detrimental

   Pernicious (Latin per, through, and neco, kill) signifies having the power of destroying or injuring, tending to hurt or kill. Pernicious is stronger than injurious; that which is injurious is capable of doing harm; that which is pernicious is likely to be destructive. Noxious (Latin noceo, hurt) is a stronger word than noisome, as referring to that which is injurious or destructive. Noisome now always denotes that which is extremely disagreeable or disgusting, especially to the sense of smell; as, the noisome stench proclaimed the presence of noxious gases.

   Synonyms:
   bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

   Antonyms:
   advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome

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1. detrimental

   Synonyms:
   injurious, hurtful, pernicious

   Antonyms:
   beneficial, profitable, augmentative

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1. damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudiciousadjective

   (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, prejudicial, prejudicious, damaging

   Antonyms:
   harmless

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1. detrimentaladjective

   Synonyms:
   injurious, hurtful, mischievous, pernicious, prejudicial

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1. List of paraphrases for "detrimental":

   harmful, damaging, prejudicial, adverse, negative, injurious, deleterious, pernicious, unfavourable, disadvantageous, noxious, disastrous, unfavorable, destructive, disruptive, bad

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1. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar:

   I shall have no faith in Rama and Krishna who are believed to be incarnation of God nor shall I worship them. I thereby reject my old religion, Hinduism, which is detrimental to the prosperity of human kind and which discriminates between man and man and which treats me as inferior.

2. Marcus Aurelius:

   Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

3. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

   ART is the medium through which you express the inexpressible, convey the unconveyable, transporting the audience in different realms of existence erasing their mental identities. Any effort by the artist to make an personal identity is detrimental in an artistic sense. Be Wiser, leave no residue dissolve in ART!

4. Eva Schernhammer:

   These results add to prior evidence of a potentially detrimental relation of rotating night shift work and health longevity, to derive practical implications for shift workers and their health, the role of duration and intensity of rotating night shift work and the interplay of shift schedules with individual traits (e.g., chronotype) warrant further exploration.

5. Denise Zheng:

   We need to have a response whether it's an industry or a government response so that folks understand there is a penalty here, if they go unpunished, the message that sends is detrimental.