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Synonyms for harmful
ˈhɑrm fəlharm·ful

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Wiktionary2.7 / 3 votes

  1. harmfuladjective

    Synonyms:
    injurious

    Antonyms:
    beneficial, harmless

  2. harmfuladjective

    of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious

    Wear a hat to protect your skin from harmful sunlight.

    Synonyms:
    injurious

    Antonyms:
    harmless, beneficial

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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, unwholesome

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

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. harmfuladjective

    causing or capable of causing harm

    "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"

    Antonyms:
    harmless, innocent, innocuous

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. vulnerable

    full of harm

    the harmful truth vignesh must tell shugale

    Submitted by asimahmed on April 3, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes4.0 / 1 vote

  1. harmfuladjective

    Synonyms:
    injurious, detrimental, mischievous, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, baneful, prejudicial, disadvantageous, hurtful

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. harmfuladjective

    Synonyms:
    injurious, pernicious, detrimental, baneful, noxious, prejudicial, deleterious, ruinous, hurtful

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How to use harmful in a sentence?

  1. Joe Lazzerini:

    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.

  2. John Walke:

    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.

  3. Kate Carey:

    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.

  4. John Herschel Glenn, Jr.:

    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.

  5. Mel Levine:

    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.


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