What is "harmful" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does harmful mean in English? Meaning of harmful definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "harmful" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "harmful": causing or capable of causing harm

Adjective

  • Meaning: causing or capable of causing harm
  • Example: too much sun is harmful to the skin harmful effects of smoking
  • Synonyms: harmful
  • Antonyms: harmless
  • Similar: abusive 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
  • Also see: destructive disadvantageous malign noxious offensive painful toxic unwholesome
  • Adjective: of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious Wear a hat to protect your skin from harmful sunlight.
  • Synonyms:

    inimical, unhealthy, noxious, catastrophic, unsafe, pernicious, adverse, bad, disastrous, detrimental, painful, sinful, toxic, disadvantageous, ruinous, destructive, damaging, risky, baleful, baneful, calamitous, consumptive, corrupting, deleterious, dire, evil, incendiary, internecine, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, pestiferous, sinister, subversive, unwholesome, virulent, cataclysmic, pestilential, undermining, corroding, crippling, harassing, malefic,

    Antonyms:

    kind, healthy, helpful, harmless, advantageous, fortunate, lucky, honest, beneficial, profitable, assisting, good, safe, aiding, favorable, upright,

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    harmful in English: harmful
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