What is another word for detrimental?
227 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ d_ˌɛ_t_ɹ_ɪ_m_ˈɛ_n_t_əl], [ dˌɛtɹɪmˈɛntə͡l], [ dˌɛtɹɪmˈɛntəl], [ ɪn kəndˈɪʃən], [ ɪn kəndˈɪʃən], [ ɪ_n k_ə_n_d_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n]Table of Contents
Similar words for detrimental:- adverse (adjective)
- bad (adjective)
- damaging (adjective)
- damaging, disadvantageous (adjective)
- dangerous (adjective)
- deleterious (adjective)
- destructive (adjective)
- evil (adjective)
- harmful (adjective)
- hateful (adjective)
- hurtful (adjective)
- ill (adjective)
- pernicious (adjective)
- pestilent/pestilential (adjective)
- poison/poisonous (adjective)
- prejudicial (adjective)
- unhealthful (adjective)
- unwholesome (adjective)
- useless (adjective)
- damaging (verb)
- other synonyms
- adj.
- v.
Definition for Detrimental:
Synonyms for Detrimental:
adj.
•adverse (adjective)- most opposite,
- down side,
- perilous,
- opposing,
- unfriendly,
- hard,
- catastrophic,
- untoward,
- unfavorable,
- miserable,
- grievous,
- troublesome,
- unpropitious,
- inauspicious,
- antipathetic,
- unlucky,
- woeful,
- have no use for,
- down on,
- unfortunate,
- burdensome,
- calamitous,
- disastrous,
- allergic to,
- difficult,
- tragic,
- distressful.
- unpleasant,
- baneful,
- irremediable,
- bad,
- invalid,
- poor,
- inadvisable,
- ruinous,
- inferior,
- black,
- defective,
- unsatisfactory,
- wrong,
- ill-suited,
- vile,
- faulty,
- arrant,
- displeasing,
- wretched,
- inadequate,
- unsound.
- de-stroying,
- most prejudicious,
- de stroying,
- more ruining,
- most destroying,
- most ruining,
- pre judicious,
- pre-judicious,
- more prejudicious,
- more destroying.
- feller,
- Extirpative,
- devastating,
- Eradicative,
- erosive,
- Wreckful,
- venomous,
- deadly,
- Lethiferous,
- Wrackful,
- cankerous.
- reprehensible,
- repugnant,
- atrocious,
- sinful,
- revolting,
- terrible,
- monstrous,
- nefarious,
- loathsome,
- abominable,
- disgraceful,
- hideous,
- sinister,
- heinous,
- foul,
- damnable,
- repellent,
- wicked,
- repulsive,
- offensive.
- most hurting,
- un-kindest,
- more wounding,
- more hurting,
- up-setting,
- un-kind,
- up setting,
- un kinder,
- un-kinder,
- most wounding,
- un kindest,
- un kind.
- fore boding,
- un promising,
- un favorable,
- illmannered,
- in-auspicious,
- dis respectful,
- most unpromising,
- most foreboding,
- dis-respectful,
- more unpromising,
- un-promising,
- un gracious,
- ill mannered,
- more foreboding,
- in auspicious,
- un-favorable,
- un-gracious,
- fore-boding.
- more pestilent,
- more tainting,
- most tainting,
- dis eased,
- dis-eased,
- most contaminating,
- more contaminating.
- most infective,
- mephitic,
- more infective,
- more toxiferous,
- most toxiferous,
- more septic,
- most septic,
- infective.
- dis criminatory,
- pre-judicial,
- more counterproductive,
- more differential,
- most differential,
- pre judicial,
- dis-criminatory,
- counter productive,
- most counterproductive.
n.
v.
•damaging (verb)Other synonyms:
•adj.- adverse,
- counterproductive,
- damaging,
- deleterious,
- destructive,
- dickens,
- differential,
- harmful,
- hurtful,
- incommodious,
- inexpedient,
- injurious,
- maleficent,
- malign,
- negative,
- noxious,
- pathological,
- pernicious,
- prejudicial,
- prejudicious,
- rascally,
- septic,
- toxicant,
- uncool,
- unhealthful,
- unhealthy,
- unpromising,
- Discommodious,
- Insalutary,
- Unhandy,
- ill-behaved,
- ill-disposed,
- toxiferous,
- bad-natured,
- counter-productive,
- harmful baneful.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
harmful.
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Proper noun, singular
harmful.
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Verb, past tense
harmful.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
fatal, hazardous, disadvantaged, debilitating, catastrophic, hurtful, ruinous, untoward, nefarious, calamitous, contrary, prejudiced, perverse, self-defeating, destabilizing, affected, malicious, damaged, Endangering, impaired, pre-trial, dire, Jeopardized, inappropriate, crippling, unwelcome, loss-making, poisonous, unwanted, insidious, endangered, threatening, ill-fated, pretrial.
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Other Related
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Adjective
disastrous, damaging, injurious, bad, deleterious, disadvantageous, devastating, destructive, counterproductive, wrong, pernicious, inimical, ill, evil, unfavourable, disruptive, counter-productive, undesirable, harm, unfavorable, dangerous, unhealthy, unhelpful, adverse, unfortunate.
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Proper noun, singular
adverse.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Detrimental:
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adj.
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damaging, disadvantageous
favorable, profitable, beneficial, advantageous, Assisting, nice, Aiding, helpful, positive, friendly, kind, good.
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Other antonyms:
useful, nondestructive, nontoxic, nonpoisonous, salubrious, nonfatal, curative, serviceable, propitious, nonlethal, life-giving, palliative, secure, noninfectious, beneficent, salutary, rejuvenating, sound, nonpolluting, remedial, benignant, wholesome, healthy, noncorrosive, healthful, nonvenomous, invigorating.
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damaging, disadvantageous
Detrimental Sentence Examples:
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He would say nothing of the part which the Allens had taken in the late unhappy controversies which had distracted the town, excepting that he considered they had displayed a heat and animosity inconsistent with their professions and detrimental to the best interests of the cause.
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There are several reasons why this military control of inland waterways is detrimental to the country.
