Antonyms for detriment
ˈdɛ trə məntdetri·ment

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1. detrimentnoun

   Antonyms:
   benefit

   Synonyms:
   hurt, damage, harm

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.

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

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

   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

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

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

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1. • Damage

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1. detriment, hurtnoun

   a damage or loss

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

How to use detriment in a sentence?

1. Sara Bode:

   I really worry that prolonged closures are going to have a huge detriment, …Kids that are most likely affected first are kids that attend more large, urban school districts, as an example, which are also often families that come from a lower socioeconomic status and may have had some challenges with remote learning, and so we're just widening the gap.

2. Adam Mount:

   The United States appears to be adopting more realistic tactics on nuclear disarmament, but not more realistic objectives, the agenda is still dominated by the nuclear issue — to the detriment of achievable deals on arms control or other critical interests like human rights, proliferation risks, chemical and biological weapons, or missile limits.

3. Francois Villeroy de Galhau:

   Financial regulators are favorable towards innovation. But that cannot come to the detriment of the security of the consumer.

4. Neil Saunders:

   While the Gen Z and Millennial cohorts are both lucrative and interesting, there is something of an obsession with them in retail and fashion that is often to the detriment of older generations, the truth is that more mature cohorts account for a lot of retail spending and there is a significant opportunity that is not always properly addressed.

5. Tommy Tuberville:

   They see a situation that has arisen and instead of making a decision for all sports… they’re taking the side of, first of all, just a handful of biological men that want to play in women’s sports, this is going to be a detriment to a lot of women’s sports.

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