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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
Example Sentences
His client was "not currently in mental crisis", he said, but had demonstrated harmful behaviours after his previous releases from jail, raising fears in his family that he may try to kill himself.
They also ask that people “avoid being on beaches on or near burned properties, as the fire debris may contain harmful substances and physical hazards such as glass, metal, and sharp wooden debris.”
The company also cited its efforts to moderate potentially harmful content and direct certain users to the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
And while cuts could mean bigger class sizes, experts also worry the impacts are disproportionately harmful to lower-income Arizonans.
The surfer later learned the animal was suffering from domoic acid toxicosis- a neurological condition caused by a harmful algal bloom.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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