harmfuladjective
uk/ˈhɑːm.fəl/us/ˈhɑːrm.fəl/B2 causing harm:
This group of chemicals is known to be harmful to people with asthma.
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- It's important to protect your skin from the harmful effects of the sun.
- Prolonged use of the drug is known to have harmful side-effects.
- The programme makers disagree that seeing violence on television has a harmful effect on children.
- Food must be heated to a high temperature to kill harmful bacteria.
- We've signed a treaty with neighbouring states to limit emissions of harmful gases.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dangerous and harmful
- adverse
- apocalyptic
- biohazard
- damaging
- deleterious
- do more harm than good idiom
- favour
- forbidding
- gnarly
- harm
- inimical
- kiss
- negative
- penal
- pernicious
- rogue
- ruinous
- self-destruct
- stinking thinking
- toxic
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harmfully
adverb uk/ˈhɑːm.fəl.i/us/ˈhɑːrm.fəl.i/
harmfulness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈhɑːm.fəl.nəs/us/ˈhɑːrm.fəl.nəs/