Synonyms for damaging
ˈdæm ɪ dʒɪŋdam·ag·ing

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1. 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, prejudicious

   Antonyms:
   harmless, constructive

2. damaging, negativeadjective

   designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

   "negative criticism"

   Synonyms:
   prejudicious, negative, negatively charged, detrimental, minus, electronegative, prejudicial, disconfirming

   Antonyms:
   constructive, harmless

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1. List of paraphrases for "damaging":

   harmful, detrimental, injurious, prejudicial, adverse, destructive, devastating, pernicious, harming, negative, deleterious, damaged, noxious, disastrous

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1. The SPC:

   Scattered severe thunderstorms associated with damaging wind gusts, isolated large hail and some tornadoes will be likely from parts of the Ozarks into the mid Mississippi Valley.

2. The National Weather Service:

   The area of greatest concern is from southeast Colorado to portions of Texas, the primary threat with these storms will be very large hail, but damaging winds and even a few tornadoes can not be ruled out.

3. Roxana Meygide Schargorodsky:

   Others enter an echo chamber of information that comes from the media and have extreme reactions that become damaging.

4. Eric Goldstein:

   What we have here is a extremely widespread, easy to exploit and potentially highly damaging vulnerability that certainly could be utilized by adversaries to cause real harm.

5. John Boehner:

   With this action, the president has chosen to deliberately sabotage any chance of enacting bipartisan reforms that he claims to seek. And as I told the president yesterday, he's damaging the presidency itself, We're working with our members and looking at the options available to us.