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Synonyms for damaging
ˈdæm ɪ dʒɪŋdam·ag·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudiciousadjective
(sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury
"damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
Synonyms:
negative, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudiciousAntonyms:
harmless, constructivedamaging, negativeadjective
designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
"negative criticism"
Synonyms:
prejudicious, negative, negatively charged, detrimental, minus, electronegative, prejudicial, disconfirmingAntonyms:
constructive, harmless
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "damaging":
harmful, detrimental, injurious, prejudicial, adverse, destructive, devastating, pernicious, harming, negative, deleterious, damaged, noxious, disastrous
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2605 | negative | |
#5680 | adverse | |
#6259 | damaged | |
#7996 | minus | |
#9672 | harmful | |
#13351 | destructive | |
#14517 | damaging | |
#15555 | devastating | |
#20371 | detrimental | |
#22839 | disastrous | |
#31651 | noxious | |
#38984 | harming | |
#41054 | prejudicial | |
#42095 | injurious | |
#43999 | deleterious | |
#48711 | pernicious | |
#239284 | electronegative |
How to use damaging in a sentence?
This is tremendously damaging. The workers don't feel welcome, and they ask if they will still have a job next year. The growers are extremely concerned as to where the supply of labour is going to come from, people here don't seem to realise that pretty much every single strawberry eaten at Wimbledon will have been picked by an eastern European.
For one thing, it could be damaging to all the oil exporters in the Gulf.
Allowing Trump to engage in such flagrant open abuse of his constitutional powers without consequences will have far more damaging ramifications.
What if it came out that it was using it for its troops and militias rather than for civilians? That is a concrete possibility, and it would be very damaging for our image.
The start point for any award might be between 10,000 and 12,500 ($14,191 to $17,743). This will vary of course if the personal information is comparatively trivial or very serious and damaging.
Translations for damaging
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- perjudicialCatalan, Valencian
- injurioso, dañino, lesivoSpanish
- vahingollinenFinnish
- מזיקה, מזיקHebrew
- lesivo, dannosoItalian
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