What are some alternative words for harmful?
Synonyms for harmful
ˈhɑrm fəl
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Princeton's WordNet
Wiktionary
harmful(adjective)
Synonyms:
injuriousAntonyms:
beneficial, harmlessharmful(adjective)
of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious
Wear a hat to protect your skin from harmful sunlight.
Synonyms:
injuriousAntonyms:
harmless, beneficial
English Synonyms and Antonyms
harmful
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, detrimental, evil, foul, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesomeAntonyms:
advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome
Editors Contribution
vulnerable
full of harm
the harmful truth vignesh must tell shugale
Submitted by asimahmed on April 3, 2020
Dictionary of English Synonymes
harmful(a.)
Synonyms:
injurious, detrimental, mischievous, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, baneful, prejudicial, disadvantageous, hurtful
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
harmful(a)
Synonyms:
injurious, pernicious, detrimental, baneful, noxious, prejudicial, deleterious, ruinous, hurtful
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "harmful":
detrimental, damaging, injurious, adverse, deleterious, noxious, prejudicial, pernicious, hazardous, dangerous, negative, pests, nuisance, pest, destructive, bad, toxic, unhealthy, nefarious, malicious, disruptive, counterproductive
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#841 | bad | |
#2605 | negative | |
#3009 | evil | |
#4178 | dangerous | |
#5680 | adverse | |
#5700 | hazardous | |
#6660 | toxic | |
#8315 | pest | |
#9200 | deadly | |
#9672 | harmful | |
#9718 | foul | |
#13351 | destructive | |
#13639 | malicious | |
#14517 | damaging | |
#16876 | pests | |
#18349 | nuisance | |
#20371 | detrimental | |
#20864 | disruptive | |
#23834 | unhealthy | |
#24683 | poisonous | |
#31651 | noxious | |
#41054 | prejudicial | |
#42095 | injurious | |
#42256 | mischievous | |
#43999 | deleterious | |
#46197 | counterproductive | |
#48360 | nefarious | |
#48711 | pernicious | |
#54344 | hurtful | |
#84995 | ruinous | |
#101921 | unwholesome | |
#132519 | baneful | |
#177128 | perverting | |
#196741 | unhealthful | |
#227568 | noisome | |
#264537 | pestilential |
How to use harmful in a sentence?
All countries can do much more to reduce the health and social costs of the harmful use of alcohol.
We are a little dry but it's not harmful yet. If it rains, as expected, in October, we'll be OK.
Its always important to protect your skin from the suns harmful UV rays, as many as four out of every five cases of skin cancer are preventable.
We are mobilizing to get our marine mammal experts and our partners there to get some samples, it could be a harmful algal bloom. It could be a number of things.
This technology enables the next generation of 'agri-chemicals' to be used. So a lot of existing chemicals are perhaps coming to the point where they're going to be banned. The next generation, they're typically called 'biologicals', they're very much more expensive than the chemicals used today. This technology, however, might be an enabler for them. So you have something that's a little bit more targeted and a little bit more environmentally friendly that can do the same jobs as a lot of the more harmful chemicals do today.
Translations for harmful
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- шко́дныBelarusian
- nociuCatalan, Valencian
- škodlivýCzech
- skadeligDanish
- schädlichGerman
- dañino, perjudicial, nocivoSpanish
- vahingollinenFinnish
- nuisible, dangereuxFrench
- díobhálachIrish
- skaðlegurIcelandic
- dannosoItalian
- 有害Japanese
- schadelijkDutch
- skadeligNorwegian
- szkodliwyPolish
- danoso, nocivo, prejudicialPortuguese
- вредныйRussian
- škodan, škodljiv, štetanSerbo-Croatian
- skadligSwedish
- హానికరమైనTelugu
- zararlıTurkish
- шкідливийUkrainian
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