Detrimental \Det`ri*men"tal\, a.
Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful.
[1913 Webster]
Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor.
--Addison.
Syn: Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous;
mischievous; pernicious.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
detrimental
adj : (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury;
"damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's
coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the
defendant" [syn: damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "detrimental":
adverse, antagonistic, bad, baleful, baneful, conflicting,
contrary, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counter,
counteractive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, deleterious,
destructive, difficult, disadvantageous, disserviceable,
distressing, evil, hard, harmful, hostile, hurtful, ill,
in opposition, inimical, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent,
malign, malignant, mischievous, miserable, negative, noisome,
not easy, noxious, ominous, opposed, opposing, opposite,
pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, rigorous, scatheful, sinister,
stressful, toxic, troublesome, troublous, trying, unadvantageous,
unfavorable, unprofitable, unrewarding, untoward, useless,
venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent,
worthless, wretched
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious
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