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Synonyms for harmful

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injurious, detrimental, hurtful, noxious, evil, mischievous, ruinous, malefic, demolitionary, internecine, adverse, inimical, harassing, sinister, subversive, incendiary, virulent, calamitous, cataclysmic, corroding, toxic, baleful, nocuous, consumptive, painful, wounding, crippling, bad, malicious, malignant, sinful, pernicious, baneful, unwholesome, pestilential, pestiferous, deleterious, annihilative, corrupting, menacing, ill-omened, dire, morbific, devouring, prejudicial, damaging, corrupt, vicious, insidious, treacherous, devastating, catastrophic, disastrous, wild, murderous, undetermining, sapping, destructive, unhealthy, stunting, habit-forming, killing, fatal, mortal, serious, costly, fraught with harm, doing harm, fraught with evil, painful, sore, extirpative, afflicting, distressing, fell, diabolic, brutal, unhealthful, satanic, demoniac, ill, grievous, mortal, lethal, malevolent, mephitic, venomous, cruel, unfortunate, disadvantageous, felonious, aching, pricking, objectionable, fiendish, maleficent, unpropitious, unlucky, malign, sinistrous, noisome, devilish, corrosive; see also dangerous 1, 2. deadly, ominous, poisonous, wicked.

Antonyms pure, healthful*, good.

See harmful in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


adjective

Causing harm or injury:

bad, deleterious, detrimental, evil, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous. See help

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