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English adjective: harmful

1. harmful causing or capable of causing harm


SamplesToo much sun is harmful to the skin.
Harmful effects of smoking.


Similarabusive, bad, bruising, calumniatory, calumnious, catastrophic, counterproductive, damaging, defamatory, deleterious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, detrimental, hurtful, ill, injurious, insidious, libellous, libelous, mischievous, nocent, pernicious, prejudicial, prejudicious, ruinous, slanderous, stabbing, subtle, wounding


See alsodestructive, disadvantageous, malign, noxious, offensive, painful, toxic, unwholesome


Antonymsharmless









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