Harmful \Harm"ful\ (h[aum]rm"f[.u]l), a.
Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. " Most harmful
hazards." --Strype. --{Harm"ful*ly, adv. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
harmful
adj 1: injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical
wastes"; "noxious ideas" [syn: noxious] [ant: innocuous]
2: able or likely to do harm
3: causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful
to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" [ant: harmless]
4: constituting a disadvantage [syn: disadvantageous] [ant: advantageous]
5: contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse
circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the
most untoward conditions" [syn: adverse, inauspicious,
untoward]
6: tending to cause great harm [syn: evil, injurious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "harmful":
adverse, antagonistic, bad, bad for, baleful, baneful, bitchy,
conflicting, contaminated, contrary, corroding, corrosive,
corrupting, corruptive, counter, counteractive, counterproductive,
cussed, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive,
detrimental, difficult, disadvantageous, disserviceable,
distressing, evil, foul, hard, hateful, hazardous, hostile,
hurtful, ill, in opposition, inimical, iniquitous, injurious,
insalubrious, insanitary, invidious, lethal, malefic, maleficent,
malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous,
miserable, morbific, nasty, noisome, not easy, noxious, ominous,
opposed, opposing, opposite, ornery, pathogenic, peccant,
pernicious, pestiferous, poisonous, polluted, prejudicial,
rigorous, risky, scatheful, septic, sinister, stressful, tainted,
toxic, troublesome, troublous, trying, unadvantageous, unfavorable,
unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unprofitable, unrewarding,
unsafe, unsanitary, untoward, unwholesome, useless, venenate,
veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wicked,
worthless, wretched
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adverse, disadvantageous, evil, inauspicious, injurious, noxious, untoward
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