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harmful
Overview of adj harmful
The adj harmful has 6 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (1) noxious, harmful -- (injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas")
2. (1) harmful -- (able or likely to do harm)
3. harmful -- (causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking")
4. disadvantageous, harmful -- (constituting a disadvantage)
5. adverse, harmful, inauspicious, untoward -- (contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions")
6. evil, harmful, injurious -- (tending to cause great harm)
Grep of noun harmful
harmfulness
Antonyms of adj harmful
6 senses of harmful
Sense 1
noxious (vs. innocuous), harmful
Sense 2
harmful
INDIRECT (VIA dangerous) -> safe
Sense 3
harmful (vs. harmless)
harmless (vs. harmful)
=> innocent, innocuous
=> inoffensive, unoffending
Sense 4
disadvantageous (vs. advantageous), harmful
Sense 5
adverse, harmful, inauspicious, untoward
INDIRECT (VIA unfavorable) -> favorable, favourable
Sense 6
evil, harmful, injurious
INDIRECT (VIA malign) -> benign, benignant
Similarity of adj harmful
6 senses of harmful
Sense 1
noxious (vs. innocuous), harmful
=> baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent
=> corrupting, degrading
=> vesicatory, vesicant
Also See> harmful#3; toxic#1; unwholesome#1
Sense 2
harmful
=> dangerous (vs. safe), unsafe
Sense 3
harmful (vs. harmless)
=> abusive
=> bad
=> bruising
=> deleterious, hurtful, injurious
=> calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous
=> catastrophic, ruinous
=> counterproductive
=> damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious
=> ill
=> insidious, pernicious, subtle
=> mischievous
=> nocent
=> stabbing, wounding
Also See> destructive#1; disadvantageous#1, harmful#4; malign#1; noxious#1, harmful#1; offensive#3; painful#1; toxic#1; unwholesome#1
Sense 4
disadvantageous (vs. advantageous), harmful
=> minus, negative
Also See> inexpedient#1; harmful#3; inopportune#1
Sense 5
adverse, harmful, inauspicious, untoward
=> unfavorable (vs. favorable), unfavourable
Sense 6
evil, harmful, injurious
=> malign (vs. benign)
Pertainyms of adj harmful
Attributes of adj harmful
Domain of adj harmful
Domain Terms of adj harmful
Familiarity of adj harmful
harmful used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =6)
Grep of adj harmful
harmful
Grep of adv harmful
harmfully
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