What is another word for harmful?
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Pronunciation:
[ hˈɑːmfə͡l], [ hˈɑːmfəl], [ h_ˈɑː_m_f_əl]
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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)
- other relevant words (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 relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- absorbing
- delicate
- hard-on
- high-priced
- injurious
- unpalatable
- other relevant words (noun)
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.
- inimical,
- hurtful,
- dyslogistic,
- detrimental,
- debit-side,
- sinister,
- toxic,
- rascally,
- destructive,
- noisome,
- disadvantageous,
- noxious,
- virulent,
- injurious,
- grievous,
- deadly,
- cancerous,
- lethal,
- Unnutritious,
- Doomful,
- unsalutary,
- blackhearted,
- pathological,
- carcinogenic,
- uncomplimentary,
- lousy,
- calamitous,
- damaging,
- unhealthful,
- pernicious,
- insalubrious,
- unhealthy,
- baneful,
- Mortiferous,
- heart-rending,
- nasty,
- unpromising,
- ill timed,
- baleful,
- pestiferous,
- death-dealing,
- on the debit side,
- ill-behaved,
- evil,
- disastrous,
- pestilential,
- dickens,
- septic,
- malign,
- debit side.
- 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.
How to use "Harmful" in context?
There are a number of things that can be considered harmful when it comes to our physical and emotional well-being. Here are five of the most harmful things to your health.
1. Smoking cigarettes is one of the most harmful things you can do to your health. The smoke from cigarettes contains thousands of chemicals, many of which are known to be harmful to your health. Not only do cigarettes cause lung cancer, but they can also damage your heart, liver and other organs.
2. Drinking alcohol can be harmful to your health. The alcohol in beer, wine and liquor can damage your heart, liver and other organs.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
adverse, counterproductive, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, hazardous, hurtful, inimical, injurious, negative, noxious, prejudicial, unfavorable, unfavourable.
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Proper noun, singular
adverse, deleterious, detrimental, hazardous, injurious, 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
calamitous, catastrophic, debilitating, devastating, dire, disadvantaged, disastrous, disruptive, dreadful, endangered, evil, fatal, fateful, harmless, ill, insidious, malicious, malign, nefarious, objectionable, painful, perverse, poisonous, risky, ruinous, serious, severe, threatening, treacherous, undesirable, unfair, unfortunate, unhealthy, unhelpful, unsound, untoward, unwanted, Endangering, Polluting, life-threatening, counter-productive, nonperforming.
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Proper noun, singular
shortcomings, disadvantages, cons, weaknesses.
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Noun, singular or mass
damage, challenges.
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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
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