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. Rachael Jones:

   To me, its not harmful to wear these masks, but it doesnt look from this study like there is a whole lot of benefit.

2. Austin Mayor Steve Adler:

   His suggestion that people experiencing homelessness are criminals is not true, its kind of like saying all immigrants are rapists. Its harmful to a community where we demonize people like that.

3. Barack Obama:

   Well, what is true is that the ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base -- helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh and some commentators on Fox News -- I think created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans from cooperating with me, that hothouse of back-and-forth arguments and really sharp partisanship I think has been harmful to the country.

4. Kate Carey:

   If you swap in any other physically harmful and psychologically harmful event, a prevalence of 15 percent would be just unacceptably high, if, for instance, 15 percent of our young people were breaking their legs in their first year of school, we would expect that the community would do something to enhance the safety of the environment.

5. Kurt Ribisl:

   E-cigarettes are less dangerous, but they’re still harmful, the approach to regulation, I think, seems reasonable to reflect that.