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adjective
adverse, afflicting, bad, corrupting, crippling, damaging, deleterious, destructive, disadvantageous, disastrous, discommodious, distressing, disturbing, dreadful, extirpative, fulsome, grievous, harmful, hindering, hurtful, ill-advised, ill-contrived, impolitic, inappropriate, inimical, iniquus, injurious, inopportune, insalubrious, insidious, internecine, malefic, malignant, noisome, noxious, oppressive, perniciosus, pernicious, pestilential, prejudicial, toxic, treacherous, undermining, unfit, unhealthy, unhelpful, unprofitable, unpropitious, unsatisfactory, unsuitable, untoward, unwholesome, unwise
associated concepts: actively detrimental, detrimental to the best interests of the child, detrimental to the public interest
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adverse (negative), bad (inferior), bad (offensive), destructive, disadvantageous, disastrous, harmful, insalubrious, malignant, noxious, oppressive, peccant (unhealthy), pernicious, prejudicial, sinister
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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Detrimental — Det ri*men tal, a. Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. [1913 Webster] Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison. Syn: Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
detrimental — 1650s; see DETRIMENT (Cf. detriment) + AL (Cf. al) (1). Related: Detrimentally … Etymology dictionary
detrimental — deleterious, noxious, *pernicious, baneful Analogous words: harming or harmful, hurting or hurtful, injuring or injurious, damaging, impairing (see corresponding verbs at INJURE) Antonyms: beneficial Contrasted words: advantageous, profitable… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
detrimental — [adj] damaging, disadvantageous adverse, bad, baleful, deleterious, destructive, disturbing, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, mischievous, negative, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, unfavorable; concepts 537,570 Ant.… … New thesaurus
detrimental — [de΄trə ment′ l] adj. [see DETRIMENT] causing detriment; harmful SYN. PERNICIOUS detrimentally adv … English World dictionary
detrimental — adj. detrimental to (smoking is detrimental to health) * * * [ˌdetrɪ mentl] detrimental to (smoking is detrimental to health) … Combinatory dictionary
detrimental — det|ri|men|tal [ˌdetrıˈmentl] adj formal causing harm or damage = ↑damaging detrimental to ▪ Smoking is detrimental to your health. ▪ the detrimental effect of pollution on the environment >detrimentally adv … Dictionary of contemporary English
detrimental — [[t]de̱trɪme̱nt(ə)l[/t]] ADJ GRADED: oft ADJ to n Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it. Many foods are suspected of being detrimental to health because of the chemicals and additives they contain … English dictionary
detrimental — adj. VERBS ▪ be, prove, seem ▪ become ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc … Collocations dictionary
detrimental — I. adjective Date: 1590 obviously harmful ; damaging < the detrimental effects of pollution > Synonyms: see pernicious • detrimentally adverb II. noun Date: 1831 an undesirable or harmful person or … New Collegiate Dictionary