harmful

[hahrm-fuhl] / ˈhɑrm fəl /

ADJECTIVE

injurious, hurtful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

adverse bad catastrophic damaging destructive detrimental disadvantageous disastrous inimical noxious painful pernicious risky ruinous sinful toxic unhealthy unsafe

WEAK

baleful baneful calamitous cataclysmic consumptive corroding corrupting crippling deleterious dire evil harassing incendiary internecine malefic malicious malignant menacing mischievous murderous nocuous pestiferous pestilential sinister subversive undermining unwholesome virulent

Antonyms

STRONGEST

advantageous aiding assisting beneficial favorable fortunate good harmless healthy helpful honest kind lucky profitable safe upright

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Macron said France would hold social media platforms accountable and demand the removal of harmful content to combat "the poison of digital hatred".

From Barron's

“Taking risk off the table every time the market gets more concentrated would have been very harmful historically,” Kritzman tells me.

From The Wall Street Journal

In both mice and human tissue samples, higher levels of HIF1 caused harmful structural changes in the tendons.

From Science Daily

Roome told the programme the trial was "the first of its kind" and that "the world is waking up" to the danger that "harmful" social media content can pose to young people.

From BBC

Beyond easing symptoms, participants in the intermittent fasting group experienced a significant reduction in harmful visceral fat and key inflammatory signals in the bloodstream.

From Science Daily

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