harmful

Definition for harmful

adjective as in injurious, hurtful

Strongest matches

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

Weak matches

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

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Kennedy has said he wants more studies on the COVID-19 shots, which he has long claimed are harmful — even deadly.

From Los Angeles Times

Is it harmful to maintaining that relationship with the material?

From Los Angeles Times

Though I knew my behaviors were harmful to myself and others, I could not stop compulsively repeating the same patterns.

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The substance is supposed to be administered only by a physician, officials say, and patients who have taken the drug should be monitored by a professional because of its possible harmful effects.

From BBC

But in an email, he said that the tunnel “was among some of the least environmentally harmful options” for Last Chance Grade.

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