English > harmful: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Causing or capable of causing harm. |
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| Examples | - "too much sun is harmful to the skin"
- "harmful effects of smoking"
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| Narrower | abusive | Characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment |
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| bad | capable of harming |
| bruising | Causing mental or emotional injury |
| calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous | (used of statements) harmful and often untrue |
| catastrophic, ruinous | Extremely harmful |
| counterproductive | tending to hinder the achievement of a goal |
| damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious | (sometimes followed by 'to') causing harm or injury |
| deleterious, hurtful, injurious | harmful to living things |
| ill | Resulting in suffering or adversity / adversity |
| insidious, pernicious, subtle | Working or spreading in a hidden / hidden and usually injurious way |
| mischievous | deliberately causing harm or damage / damage |
| nocent | Having a tendency to cause harm |
| stabbing, wounding | Causing physical or especially psychological injury |
| See also | destructive | Causing destruction or much damage / damage |
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| disadvantageous, unfavorable, unfavourable | constituting a disadvantage |
| malign | Evil or harmful in nature or influence |
| noxious | injurious to physical or mental health |
| offensive | Causing anger / anger or annoyance |
| painful | Causing physical or psychological pain |
| toxic | Of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison |
| unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being |
| Opposite | harmless | not causing or capable of causing harm |
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| Spanish | dañino, dañoso, nocivo, perjudicial |
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| Catalan | danyós, nociu, perjudicial |
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| Nouns | harmfulness | destructiveness that causes harm or injury |
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| Adverbs | harmfully | in a detrimental manner |
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