Synonyms for harmful
ˈhɑrm fəlharm·ful

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1. harmfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   injurious

   Antonyms:
   beneficial, harmless

2. harmfuladjective

   of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious

   Wear a hat to protect your skin from harmful sunlight.

   Synonyms:
   injurious

   Antonyms:
   harmless, beneficial

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1. harmful

   Pernicious (Latin per, through, and neco, kill) signifies having the power of destroying or injuring, tending to hurt or kill. Pernicious is stronger than injurious; that which is injurious is capable of doing harm; that which is pernicious is likely to be destructive. Noxious (Latin noceo, hurt) is a stronger word than noisome, as referring to that which is injurious or destructive. Noisome now always denotes that which is extremely disagreeable or disgusting, especially to the sense of smell; as, the noisome stench proclaimed the presence of noxious gases.

   Synonyms:
   bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

   Antonyms:
   advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome

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1. harmfuladjective

   causing or capable of causing harm

   "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"

   Antonyms:
   harmless, innocent, innocuous

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1. vulnerable

   full of harm

   the harmful truth vignesh must tell shugale

   Submitted by asimahmed on April 3, 2020  

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1. harmfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   injurious, detrimental, mischievous, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, baneful, prejudicial, disadvantageous, hurtful

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1. harmfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   injurious, pernicious, detrimental, baneful, noxious, prejudicial, deleterious, ruinous, hurtful

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1. List of paraphrases for "harmful":

   detrimental, damaging, injurious, adverse, deleterious, noxious, prejudicial, pernicious, hazardous, dangerous, negative, pests, nuisance, pest, destructive, bad, toxic, unhealthy, nefarious, malicious, disruptive, counterproductive

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1. Steven Hoffman:

   Do celebrities have an impact on health outcomes? We know they do. ... There's so many studies out there that have demonstrated that when celebrities either give helpful or harmful advice to people, it's routinely followed, i do blame celebrities, because they need to recognize the impact they can have and the potential harm that can result from it.

2. Mara Keisling:

   One would hope that transgender people would support philosophies that are helpful and not harmful to trans people.

3. Thomas Paterek:

   I think everyone in the community is frustrated, when you see dead dolphins in the water, when you see dead manatees in the water, dead sea turtles... when you have captains who have fished in the area for decades say they have never seen anything like this, that is enough to declare a state of emergency and not just say it's another naturally occurring harmful algal bloom.

4. Larry Wolk:

   I'm not singling marijuana out, i'm asking for the same treatment for recreational marijuana use that we would ask for other recreational substances that are legal yet potentially harmful to kids.

5. Yasmin Balai:

   Emotionally, it can be very exhausting to work in such an environment, you naturally start to care for people and to worry about their health and emotional well-being. It is of course hard to see them taking harmful drugs, to see them getting worse, to visit them in the hospital and eventually to go to identify them and stand beside their graves.