harmful

[hahrm-fuhl] / ˈhɑrm fəl /

ADJECTIVE

injurious, hurtful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

adverse bad catastrophic damaging destructive detrimental disadvantageous disastrous inimical noxious painful pernicious risky ruinous sinful toxic unhealthy unsafe

WEAK

baleful baneful calamitous cataclysmic consumptive corroding corrupting crippling deleterious dire evil harassing incendiary internecine malefic malicious malignant menacing mischievous murderous nocuous pestiferous pestilential sinister subversive undermining unwholesome virulent

Antonyms

STRONGEST

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

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“The alternative—members becoming gravely ill due to lack of medication—is far more harmful to patients and costly to the health system,” a company spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead of adapting to new information, people may repeat the same risky or harmful choices again and again.

From Science Daily

But Lucy Theo, a psychotherapist, counsellor and mother is urging parents to resist the "sanctimonious" idea that screens are inherently harmful.

From BBC

Under this view, mutations are usually neither helpful nor harmful, allowing them to spread quietly without being strongly favored or rejected by natural selection.

From Science Daily

Technologies that can selectively increase stress inside cancer cells may lead to treatments that are more targeted and less harmful.

From Science Daily

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