damaging \damaging\ adj.
1. causing harm or injury; as, damaging to career and
reputation.
Syn: detrimental, detrimental to(predicate), prejudicial,
prejudicious.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. designed or tending to discredit, especially without
positive or helpful suggestions.
Syn: negative.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Damage \Dam"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damaged
(d[a^]m"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging
(d[a^]m"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See
Damage, n.]
To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of;
to hurt; to injure; to impair.
[1913 Webster]
He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a
broadside, with which he killed many of his men and
damaged the ship. --Clarendon.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
damaging
adj 1: (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: detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious]
2: designed or tending to discredit, especially without
positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism"
[syn: negative]
WordNet (r) 2.0
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "damaging":
bad, baleful, baneful, corroding, corrosive, corrupting,
corruptive, counterproductive, deadly, deleterious, detrimental,
disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, eroding, erosive,
evil, harmful, hurtful, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent,
malign, malignant, mischievous, noisome, noxious, ominous,
pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, scatheful, toxic, venenate,
veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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