Synonyms for detriment
ˈdɛ trə məntdetri·ment

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1. detrimentnoun

   Synonyms:
   hurt, damage, harm

   Antonyms:
   benefit

2. detrimentnoun

   harm, hurt, damage.

   Synonyms:
   damage, harm, hurt

   Antonyms:
   benefit

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1. detriment

   Injury (Latin in, not, and jus, juris, right, law) signifies primarily something done contrary to law or right; hence, something contrary to some standard of right or good; whatever reduces the value, utility, beauty, or desirableness of anything is an injury to that thing; of persons, whatever is so done as to operate adversely to one in his person, rights, property, or reputation is an injury; the word is especially used of whatever mars the integrity of the body or causes pain; as, when rescued from the wreck his injuries were found to be very slight. Injury is the general term including all the rest. Damage (Latin damnum, loss) is that which occasions loss to the possessor; hence, any impairment of value, often with the suggestion of fault on the part of the one causing it; damage reduces value, utility, or beauty; detriment (Latin deterere, to rub or wear away) is similar in meaning, but far milder. Detriment may affect value only; damage always affects real worth or utility; as a rule, the slightest use of an article by a purchaser operates to its detriment if again offered for sale, tho the article may have received not the slightest damage. Damage is partial; loss is properly absolute as far as it is predicated at all; the loss of a ship implies that it is gone beyond recovery; the loss of the rudder is a damage to the ship; but since the loss of a part still leaves a part, we may speak of a partial or a total loss. Evil commonly suggests suffering or sin, or both; as, the evils of poverty, the social evil. Harm is closely synonymous with injury; it may apply to body, mind, or estate, but always affects real worth, while injury may concern only estimated value. A hurt is an injury that causes pain, physical or mental; a slight hurt may be no real harm. Mischief is disarrangement, trouble, or harm usually caused by some voluntary agent, with or without injurious intent; a child's thoughtless sport may do great mischief; wrong is harm done with evil intent. An outrage combines insult and injury. Compare synonyms for BLEMISH; CRIMINAL; INJUSTICE.

   Synonyms:
   blemish, damage, disadvantage, evil, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, injustice, loss, mischief, outrage, prejudice, wrong

   Antonyms:
   advantage, amelioration, benefit, blessing, boon, help, improvement, remedy, service, utility

   Preposition:
   The injury of the cause; an injury to the structure; injury by fire; by or from collision, interference, etc.

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1. detriment

   Synonyms:
   loss, harm, hurt, injury, deterioration, impairment, disadvantage, prejudice, damage, inconvenience

   Antonyms:
   enhancement, improvement, remedy, reinstatement, repair, augmentation

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1. detriment, hurtnoun

   a damage or loss

   Synonyms:
   hurt, injury, distress, harm, damage, suffering, trauma, scathe

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1. detrimentnoun

   Synonyms:
   loss, damage, injury, disadvantage, mischief, prejudice, evil, harm, hurt

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1. List of paraphrases for "detriment":

   expense, disadvantage, prejudice, damage, harm, injury

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1. Geoff LeBaron:

   When people harass them, it's to the detriment of the birds. It can cause them to spend more energy and push them over the edge. If they are starving already, it can cause them to starve to death.

2. Joy Villa:

   There's a lot of shadow banning, censorship and over saturated' fact checking' to the detriment of being able to freely post anything, even on the President of the United States, i love that Parler is transparent with who views my posts, and that they promote and actually support free speech and free thought.

3. Mike Huckabee:

   (Trump) uses language that as you know ... I don't use, and maybe that's to my detriment this year, maybe it would be better if I did, but that's not who I am.

4. Luke Hemsworth:

   I really miss Australia. I miss eating fish ‘n chips, oh my God, and Australian pies and the wonderful corner shops. I miss good surf where there are three or four people, as opposed to LA where there’s 30 or 40. I see living here for now as a means to an end. It’s a time in our life where we have to live here and hopefully we’ll shift back to Australia, but we’re not locked in either way. Maybe it’s to my detriment but I’ve never looked further ahead than a year and a half. But the girls have had have a wonderful upbringing in terms of being able to move around. Their passports are hilarious in terms of where they’ve been, the older ones are holding onto their Australian accents but my youngest daughter in particular is very American. She’s really entrenched and I actually find it really hilarious, really cute.

5. Mohamed Hadid:

   I started to not have boundaries, not only sexually, physically, emotionally, but then it went into my work space... I began to be a people-pleaser with my job and it was everyone else's opinion of me that mattered except for my own, because I essentially was putting my worth into the hands of everyone else and that was the detriment of it.