What is another word for harmful?
500 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ hˈɑːmfə͡l], [ hˈɑːmfəl], [ h_ˈɑː_m_f_əl]Table of Contents
Similar words for harmful:- all (adjective)
- baleful (adjective)
- baneful (adjective)
- calamitous (adjective)
- damaging (adjective)
- dangerous (adjective)
- deadly (adjective)
- destructive (adjective)
- disadvantageous (adjective)
- disastrous (adjective)
- evil (adjective)
- fetid (adjective)
- grievous (adjective)
- harmful (adjective)
- hurtful (adjective)
- ill (adjective)
- inimical (adjective)
- injurious (adjective)
- injurious, hurtful (adjective)
- insalubrious (adjective)
- lethal (adjective)
- lousy (adjective)
- malign (adjective)
- mischievous (adjective)
- noisome (adjective)
- pernicious (adjective)
- pestilent (adjective)
- sinister (adjective)
- toxic (adjective)
- unhealthful (adjective)
- unsalutary (adjective)
- unwholesome (adjective)
- virulent (adjective)
- abusive (noun)
- adverse (noun)
- bruising (noun)
- calumniatory (noun)
- calumnious (noun)
- catastrophic (noun)
- corrupting (noun)
- counterproductive (noun)
- dangerous (noun)
- defamatory (noun)
- degrading (noun)
- deleterious (noun)
- denigrating (noun)
- denigrative (noun)
- denigratory (noun)
- harmful (noun)
- injurious (noun)
- other synonyms
- absorbing
- delicate
- hard-on
- high-priced
- injurious
- unpalatable
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Harmful:
adj.
•all (adjective) •baleful (adjective) •baneful (adjective) •calamitous (adjective) •damaging (adjective) •dangerous (adjective) •deadly (adjective)- more destroying,
- un relenting,
- most slaying,
- more carcinogenic,
- most killing,
- killing,
- more slaying,
- more deathdealing,
- murderous,
- more killing,
- more death-dealing,
- most destroying,
- most carcinogenic,
- most mortiferous,
- most deathdealing,
- more death dealing,
- un-relenting,
- most death dealing,
- de stroying,
- de-stroying,
- more mortiferous,
- deathdealing,
- most death-dealing,
- death dealing.
- most uncomplimentary,
- more debit side,
- dis-advantageous,
- in expedient,
- most dyslogistic,
- un-complimentary,
- in opportune,
- in-opportune,
- more dyslogistic,
- ill-timed,
- un-profitable,
- more debit-side,
- most detracting,
- most downside,
- dis advantageous,
- most debitside,
- on debit side,
- most debit-side,
- more detracting,
- un complimentary,
- more debitside,
- most debit side,
- un profitable,
- more uncomplimentary,
- de rogatory,
- in-expedient,
- debitside,
- illtimed,
- de-rogatory,
- more downside,
- objectionable.
- unpropitious,
- ill fated,
- un-luckier,
- un luckier,
- un-lucky,
- un-propitious,
- un luckiest,
- illfated,
- un propitious,
- ill-starred,
- un lucky,
- illstarred,
- ill starred,
- un-luckiest.
- in tolerable,
- most heart-rending,
- more wounding,
- up-setting,
- dis-quieting,
- heart rending,
- dis quieting,
- more afflicting,
- in-tolerable,
- more heart rending,
- un-bearable,
- most afflicting,
- up setting,
- un bearable,
- more heart-rending,
- most heart rending,
- egregious,
- most wounding.
- in-auspicious,
- un promising,
- dis-respectful,
- un friendliest,
- dis respectful,
- illmannered,
- un gracious,
- most unpromising,
- un friendlier,
- in auspicious,
- un-friendlier,
- ill mannered,
- more unpromising,
- un-promising,
- un-friendly,
- un-gracious,
- un-friendliest.
- unconducive,
- more unconducive,
- un-conducive,
- un conducive,
- un-juster,
- un-justest,
- un just,
- most unconducive,
- un justest,
- opprobrious,
- un juster,
- more libeling,
- most libeling,
- un-just.
- most exasperating,
- more dickens,
- ex-asperating,
- pre-carious,
- illbehaved,
- mis behaving,
- more illbehaved,
- impish,
- teasing,
- most dickens,
- more ill behaved,
- ex asperating,
- most ill behaved,
- holy terror,
- most ill-behaved,
- more exasperating,
- most vexing,
- most misbehaving,
- most rascal,
- ill behaved,
- pre carious,
- most illbehaved,
- more vexing,
- most rascally,
- mis-behaving,
- more rascal,
- more ill-behaved,
- more misbehaving,
- more rascally.
- more tainting,
- more pestilent,
- most tainting,
- most contaminating,
- dis-eased,
- dis eased,
- more contaminating.
- dis-honest,
- dis honest,
- illboding,
- more doomful,
- portentous,
- most blackhearted,
- Ill-boding,
- most doomful,
- more blackhearted,
- ill boding.
n.
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- risky.
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- help.
- negative,
- bad,
- insidious,
- vesicatory,
- stabbing,
- ill,
- prejudicial,
- mischievous,
- traumatic,
- minus,
- wounding,
- unfavourable,
- subtle,
- vesicant,
- ruinous,
- libellous,
- unfavorable,
- slanderous,
- untoward,
- inauspicious,
- prejudicious,
- unsafe,
- libelous.
- habit-forming,
- distressing,
- fell,
- Sinistrous,
- internecine,
- undetermining,
- aching,
- felonious,
- subversive,
- diabolic,
- ill-omened,
- doing harm,
- satanic,
- Afflicting,
- corrosive,
- morbific,
- incendiary,
- cruel,
- sore,
- Harassing,
- Sapping,
- sinful,
- Fiendish,
- vicious,
- devouring,
- fraught with harm,
- demolitionary,
- fraught with evil,
- ominous,
- malicious,
- stunting,
- demoniac,
- dire,
- mephitic,
- brutal,
- malevolent,
- crippling,
- unfortunate,
- devilish,
- menacing,
- wicked,
- corrupt,
- wild,
- pricking,
- painful,
- annihilative,
- unlucky,
- corroding.
Other synonyms:
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- lunatic,
- perilously,
- threatening,
- wanton,
- overactive,
- kamikaze,
- marauding,
- dangerously,
- undesirable,
- mortally,
- perilous,
- hazardous,
- sketchy,
- treacherous,
- hard-on,
- combustible,
- cataclysmic,
- parlous,
- precarious.
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- hot.
- incorrect,
- bitchy,
- worthless,
- not easy,
- acute,
- mischief-making,
- counteractive,
- biting,
- vitriolic,
- difficult,
- uncomely,
- suicidal,
- iii,
- acid,
- spiteful,
- mordant,
- scorching,
- tainted,
- miasmic,
- exploitive,
- cutting,
- stressful,
- underhand,
- in opposition,
- peccant,
- pathogenic,
- unseemly,
- improper,
- agonizing,
- violent,
- Misapplied,
- fierce,
- insanitary,
- scathing,
- Searing,
- miserable,
- Perverting,
- opposing,
- offensive,
- conflicting,
- rotten,
- sneaky,
- harsh,
- sharp,
- opposite,
- Venenate,
- exploitative,
- perverted,
- severe,
- villainous,
- unhelpful,
- counter-productive,
- unrewarding,
- Scatheful,
- polluted,
- antagonistic,
- unadvantageous,
- grave,
- shocking,
- trying,
- unsanitary,
- counter,
- vitiated,
- bad for,
- useless,
- life-threatening,
- corruptive,
- foul,
- debased,
- troublous,
- keen,
- stern,
- mean,
- vile,
- nefarious,
- hateful,
- hard,
- veneniferous,
- wrong,
- base,
- inopportune,
- tumbledown,
- iniquitous,
- cussed,
- contaminated,
- indecorous,
- venenous,
- poisonous,
- dreadful,
- opposed,
- ornery,
- contrary,
- depraved,
- inexpedient,
- Disserviceable,
- savage,
- burning,
- awful,
- fateful,
- badly,
- unprofitable,
- indecent,
- disturbing,
- upsetting,
- unconstructive,
- Scathful,
- withering,
- heavy,
- acrid,
- furtive,
- rigorous,
- wretched,
- traumatizing,
- unbecoming,
- disapproving,
- troublesome,
- acrimonious,
- pessimistic,
- unhygienic,
- incisive,
- exploitatory.
Paraphrases for Harmful:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
negative, counterproductive, detrimental, destructive, disadvantageous, hurtful, inimical, unfavourable, injurious, hazardous, unfavorable, deleterious, adverse, noxious, prejudicial.
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Proper noun, singular
detrimental, injurious, hazardous, deleterious, adverse, noxious, prejudicial.
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Verb, past tense
detrimental.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
prejudicial.
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Verb, base form
noxious.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
unhealthy, undesirable, disruptive, disastrous, malicious, poisonous, counter-productive, unhelpful, perverse, nefarious, devastating, fatal, unfair, Polluting, ill, harmless, unfortunate, catastrophic, calamitous, evil, life-threatening, insidious, dire, dreadful, unsound, unwanted, debilitating, risky, Endangering, painful, fateful, ruinous, untoward, threatening, disadvantaged, malign, endangered, objectionable, treacherous, severe, nonperforming, serious.
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Proper noun, singular
disadvantages, shortcomings, weaknesses, cons.
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Noun, singular or mass
challenges, damage.
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Verb, base form
damage.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
harm.
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Noun, singular or mass
harm.
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Verb, base form
harm.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Harmful:
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adj.
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all
harmless.
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injurious, hurtful
good, Aiding, favorable, lucky, profitable, healthy, helpful, upright, Assisting, honest, kind, beneficial, safe, advantageous, fortunate.
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Other antonyms:
nonpoisonous, beneficent, nonfatal, curative, nonpolluting, useful, nonvenomous, nonlethal, noninfectious, rejuvenating, sound, noncorrosive, nondestructive, invigorating, life-giving, secure, propitious, remedial, serviceable, palliative, nontoxic.
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all