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Synonyms for harmful
ˈhɑrm fəlharm·ful
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Wiktionary
harmfuladjective
Synonyms:
injuriousAntonyms:
beneficial, harmlessharmfuladjective
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
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Editors Contribution
vulnerable
full of harm
the harmful truth vignesh must tell shugale
Submitted by asimahmed on April 3, 2020
Dictionary of English Synonymes
harmfuladjective
Synonyms:
injurious, detrimental, mischievous, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, baneful, prejudicial, disadvantageous, hurtful
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
harmfuladjective
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
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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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?
There are Catholics all across Rhode Islandwho support the LGBTQIA+community and Ihonestly think that its shameful that Bishop Tobin is resorting to these attacks on the first day of pride month, on the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, pride isnt harmful, love is not harmful, its 2019.
The EPA is allowing more harmful air pollution to be sent from big polluters in one state to neighboring states, refusing to control the pollution, then lying about what is an obvious rollback, the EPA's absurd to pretend this so-called' guidance' doesn't change what's acceptable : the purpose of the rollback memo is to let upwind states pollute more and refuse to control harmful smog and soot they emit into neighboring states.
If you swap in any other physically harmful and psychologically harmful event, a prevalence of 15 percent would be just unacceptably high, if, for instance, 15 percent of our young people were breaking their legs in their first year of school, we would expect that the community would do something to enhance the safety of the environment.
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.
Speaker Boehner cooking up a scheme to invite the Prime Minister a few weeks before the election in Israel is very harmful to the U.S.-Israel relationship, and particularly harmful to constituents that have traditionally been very, very loyal to Israel but not sympathetic to the policies of the Israeli government.
Translations for harmful
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- 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
- škodljiv, škodan, štetanSerbo-Croatian
- skadligSwedish
- హానికరమైనTelugu
- zararlıTurkish
- шкідливийUkrainian
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