Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Causing or capable of causing harm; injurious.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of harm; hurtful; injurious; noxious; detrimental; mischievous.
- Synonyms Pernicious, baneful, deleterious, prejudicial.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. causing or capable of causing harm
Etymologies
- From harm + -ful. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Chinese authorities have in recent months stepped up their already strict control of the flow of information online, including efforts this year to discourage the spread of what they term "harmful information" and "rumors"—words increasingly used for opinions and information not approved by the Communist Party.”
“Obama, opening the forum, took another shot a Republicans in Congress for what he called a harmful practice of putting party above country.”
“Hani Qawasmi, who had been considered a moderate civil servant acceptable to both factions, resigned due to what he termed harmful behavior by both sides.”
“It became clear very quickly that really all this shampoo did was clean your hair and didn't put what they called harmful chemicals back into your hair," Sheldon told CBC Radio's”
“The Pope lamented what he called the harmful and destructive influence of some forms of modern culture.”
“Then we must ask why God needed to even bother with awkward designs like the flawed and ridiculously concocted ones we see in nature; why, for instance, did God give us skin as protection from germs and foreign particles, and yet not make us to thrive on what we know as harmful radiation?”
“(B2 is one of the few vitamins with which overdoses result in harmful effects).”
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms
“Perhaps even more harmful is the stereotyping of marijuana smokers as lazy, dumb, slow, passive, apathetic, memory-challenged junk-food addicts.”
The Huffington Post: Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition
“High temperatures, pressures, and an abundance of certain harmful chemical compounds have rendered these levels uninhabitable.”
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“In the end it is really all about safety for the dogs and the e-collar gives you the ability to prevent the dogs from putting themselves in harmful situations.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘harmful’.
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Unite 2
unspeakable, unavoidable, snobbish, sluggish, sizeable, rocky, reputable, numerous, moody, misty, knowledgeable, justifiable and 18 more...
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Harmful
quick, hurtful, ruinous, noxious, destructive, deadly, mischievous, deleterious, baneful, injurious, baleful, malicious and 24 more...
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to acquire
moustache, thoughtcrime, lift, overall, razor, strength, oily, gin, oily gin, brotherhood, dull, toward and 108 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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-ful
full of; having qualities of; having ability to
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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pol.and envnment
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harmful, destroying, the ozone layer, global warming, conservation, greens, exhaust fumes, dumping, aerosol cans, recycled, resources
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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Danger, Will Robinson
Adjectives that mean dangerous.
dangerous, hazardous, volatile, deadly, precarious, fatal, treacherous, harmful, perilous, jeopardous, unsafe, menacing and 19 more...
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