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View usage for: (hɑːʳmfʊl) adjectiveSomething that is harmful has a bad effect on something else, especially on a person's health. ...the harmful effects of smoking. It believed the affair was potentially harmful to British aviation. [+ to] Synonyms: damaging, dangerous, negative, evil More Synonyms of harmful harmful in British English (ˈhɑːmfʊl) adjectivecausing or tending to cause harm; injurious Derived forms harmfully (ˈharmfully) adverb harmfulness (ˈharmfulness) noun harmful in American English (ˈhɑrmfəl) adjective causing or able to cause harm; hurtful Derived forms harmfully (ˈharmfully) adverb harmfulness (ˈharmfulness) noun Examples of 'harmful' in a sentenceharmful But the tendency to avoid gross and potentially harmful things may not be just limited to humans.These too might be harmful, especially to young brains.It's much more debatable whether inflation of about 10 per cent is harmful.The medical point is to show the harmful effects fat has on our insides, and it's a queasy spectacle.It seems her demise was caused by the introduction of foods that are harmful to fish.How many vehicles have harmful faults that go unnoticed?The drug thus seems to cut the harmful effects of metabolic syndrome.This will dramatically reduce your exposure to potentially harmful pesticide residues.But something much more exciting and less harmful took its place.For these reasons it is unlikely that a harmful food additive will be identified by this means.But a toy store banned them over potentially harmful chemicals.And it is difficult to predict if it will turn into something truly harmful.This increases the risk of food poisoning as harmful bacteria splash from raw meat on to work surfaces.These free radicals are known to have a role in causing cancer as well as other harmful effects.Sometimes they use rakes, which are especially harmful.These symptoms may have some other, less harmful causes. In other languagesharmful British English: harmful / ˈhɑːmfʊl/ ADJECTIVE Something that is harmful has a bad effect on someone or something else. ...the harmful effects of the sun. - American English: harmful
- Arabic: ضَارّ
- Brazilian Portuguese: prejudicial
- Chinese: 有害的
- Croatian: štetan
- Czech: škodlivý
- Danish: skadelig
- Dutch: schadelijk
- European Spanish: nocivo
- Finnish: vahingollinen
- French: nuisible
- German: schädlich
- Greek: επιβλαβής
- Italian: dannoso
- Japanese: 有害な
- Korean: 유해한
- Norwegian: skadelig
- Polish: szkodliwy
- European Portuguese: prejudicial
- Romanian: dăunător
- Russian: вредный
- Latin American Spanish: nocivo
- Swedish: skadlig
- Thai: เป็นอันตราย
- Turkish: zararlı
- Ukrainian: шкідливий
- Vietnamese: có hại
Chinese translation of 'harmful' adj - [effect, chemical, influence]
有害的 (yǒuhài de) to be harmful to sb/sth 对(對)某人/某物有害 (duì mǒurén/mǒuwù yǒuhài)
Definition causing or tending to cause harm, esp. to a person's health the harmful effects of smoking Synonyms negative hazardous baneful maleficent toxic Opposites beneficial , harmless , good , safe , healthy , helpful , wholesome , innocuous Additional synonymsDefinition harmful, menacing, or vindictive He had a baleful look. Synonyms menacing, threatening, dangerous, frightening, evil, deadly, forbidding, intimidating, harmful, sinister, ominous, malignant, hurtful, vindictive, pernicious (formal), malevolent, noxious, venomous, ruinous, intimidatory, minatory, maleficent, bodeful, louring or lowering, minacious Synonyms harmful, fatal, deadly, disastrous, destructive, hurtful, pernicious (formal), noxious, venomous, ruinous, calamitous, baleful, deleterious (formal), injurious, pestilential, maleficent Definition likely or able to cause injury or harm a dangerous undertaking Synonyms perilous, threatening, risky, hazardous, exposed, alarming, vulnerable, nasty, ugly, menacing, insecure, hairy (slang), unsafe, precarious, treacherous, breakneck, parlous (archaic), fraught with danger, chancy (informal), unchancy (Scottish) |