disserviceableadj.
Tending to do disservice; unhelpful, hurtful, detrimental.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [adjective]
litherc893
scathefulc900
balefulOE
orneOE
teenfulOE
evilc1175
venomousc1290
scathela1300
prejudiciala1325
fell?c1335
harmfula1340
grievous1340
ill1340
wicked1340
noisomea1382
venomed1382
noyfulc1384
damageousc1386
mischievousc1390
unwholesomea1400
undisposingc1400
damnablec1420
prejudiciable1429
contagiousc1440
damagefulc1449
pestiferous1458
damageable1474
pestilent?a1475
nuisable1483
nocible1490
nuisible1490
nuisant1494
noxiousa1500
nocent?c1500
pestilential1531
tortious1532
pestilentious1533
nocive1538
offensivea1548
vitiating1547
dangerous1548
offending1552
dispendious1557
injurious1559
offensible1575
offensant1578
baneful1579
incommodious1579
prejudicious1579
prejudical1595
inimicous1598
damnifiable1604
taking1608
obnoxious1612
nocivousc1616
mischieving1621
nocuous1627
nocumentous1644
disserviceable1645
inimical1645
detrimentous1648
injuring1651
detrimental1656
inimicitial1656
nocumental1657
incommodous1677
fatal1681
inimic1696
nociferous1706
damnific1727
inimicable1805
violational1821
insalutary1836
detrimentary1841
wronging1845
unsalvatory1850
damaging1856
damnous1870
wack1986
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adjective]
unbeheveeOE
unprofitablec1350
thriftlessc1400
undisposingc1400
disprofitable1548
disadvantageous1550
incommodious1579
disadvantageable1587
unadvantageable1603
lossful1611
naught1620
disvantageous1622
disserviceable1645
incommodous1677
unserviceable1698
zero-sum1965
downside1983
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious > in tendency or detrimental
injurious1559
marring1567
inimicous1598
blemishing1603
disserviceable1645
inimical1645
detrimentous1648
detrimental1656
inimicitial1656
inimic1696
inimicable1805
violational1821
detrimentary1841
vitiating1858
blotching1865
1645 J. Goodwin Innocency & Truth Triumphing 93 [They] are..in their natures disserviceable unto the common peace.
1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence vii. 311 True sound Philosophy..is no way disserviceable, but very assistant to Religion.
1817 H. T. Colebrooke tr. Bhāskara Āchārya in Algebra 199 Its presence in that multiplication would be highly disserviceable.
Derivatives
disˈserviceableness n. the quality of being disserviceable.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [noun]
grievousness1303
noyfulnessa1398
fatality1490
harmfulnessa1586
balefulness1590
illnessc1595
offensiveness1618
disserviceableness1635
injuriousness1649
fatalness1652
noxiousness1655
prejudicialness1655
deleteriousness1758
vice1837
disutility1879
nocuousness1894
disvalue1925
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [noun]
unavailableness1548
inutility1598
disuse1628
disserviceableness1635
uselessness1641
improfitablenessa1643
unusefulness1694
good-for-nothingness1740
non-utility1775
unproductiveness1777
valuelessness1830
unprofiting1867
servicelessness1874
1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 164 Hindered by..the disserviceableness of his owne horses.
1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 294 All action being for some End..its aptness to be commanded or forbidden, must be founded upon its serviceableness or disserviceableness to some end.
disˈserviceably adv. in a disserviceable manner; not serviceably.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [adverb]
evilc1275
balefullya1375
harmfullyc1374
teenfullya1375
wickedlya1375
unsoundlyc1400
prejudicially1467
ill1483
mischievously1512
pestilently1528
badly1580
noisomely1589
infectiously1609
prejudiciously1614
evilly1631
damageably1648
deleteriously1657
disserviceablya1670
noxiously1755
injuriously1809
nocuously1847
damagingly1854
banefully1865
detrimentally1879
damnously1884
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adverb] > with harmful or injurious tendency
hurtfully1552
injuriously1561
undermininglyc1590
disserviceablya1670
marringly1831
detrimentally1879
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adverb]
unprofitably1395
unprofitablec1450
discommodiously1590
disadvantageously1611
disadvantageably1627
disserviceablya1670
malignly1828
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 17 I did nothing disserviceably to your majesty, or the duke.
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