harmful
AdjectiveUS[hahrm-fuhl]/ˈhɑrmfəl/2 syllables
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Adjective (1)
- causing or capable of causing harm“too much sun is harmful to the skin”“harmful effects of smoking”Opposite harmlessSimilar damaging, catastrophic, ill, nocent, bruising, stabbing, mischievous, calumniatory +5 moreSee also disadvantageous, malign, destructive, noxious, offensive, painful +2 more
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Translations
Adjective likely to be damaging
- Spanish
- perjudicial
- French
- nuisible
- German
- schädlich
- Italian
- dannoso
- Portuguese
- prejudicial
- Turkish
- zararlı
- Russian
- вре́дный vrédnyj
- Arabic
- مُضِرّ muḍirr
- Chinese
- 有害 yǒuhài
- Japanese
- 有害 yūgai
18 more languages
- Dutch
- schadelijk
- Polish
- szkodliwy
- Swedish
- skadlig
- Greek
- επιβλαβής epivlavís
- Indonesian
- berbahaya
- Vietnamese
- có hại
- Hungarian
- káros
- Portuguese (PT)
- prejudicial
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 有害 yǒuhài
- Catalan
- nociu
- Czech
- škodlivý
- Danish
- skadelig
- Finnish
- vahingollinen
- Georgian
- საზიანო saziano
- Icelandic
- skaðlegur
- Norwegian
- skadelig
- Romanian
- dăunător
- Serbo-Croatian
- štetan
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Harm′ful (härm′fụl), adjective
Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. “ Most harmful hazards.” John Strype
—Harm′wb-a1′>′ful·ly, adverb — Harm′wb-a1′>′ful·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54