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detrimental
adjective as in damaging, disadvantageous
Strongest matches
adverse, destructive, disturbing, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, negative, pernicious, prejudicial, unfavorable
Weak matches
bad, baleful, deleterious, evil, ill, mischievous, nocuous
Example Sentences
Educators are reeling at McMahon’s appointment, fearing that she will have a detrimental impact on students across the country.
While these symptoms do not constitute a disorder diagnosed as psychosis, they can still be disruptive, distressing or detrimental to functional capacity.
Speckle noise is normally considered detrimental to clear, accurate imaging.
They’re exacting and skillful at their jobs, but chaos follows and mistakes are made that have detrimental, often deadly, effects.
But Trump made headway among Black male voters that proved detrimental to the vice president's bid, argued Alvin Tillery, a Democratic pollster and founder of the Black Equality Alliance super PAC.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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