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Definition of Harmful
1. Adjective. Causing or capable of causing harm. "Harmful effects of smoking"
Similar to: Abusive, Bad, Bruising, Deleterious, Hurtful, Injurious, Calumniatory, Calumnious, Defamatory, Denigrating, Denigrative, Denigratory, Libellous, Libelous, Slanderous, Catastrophic, Ruinous, Counterproductive, Damaging, Detrimental, Prejudicial, Prejudicious, Ill, Insidious, Pernicious, Subtle, Mischievous, Nocent, Stabbing, Wounding
Derivative terms: Harmfulness
Antonyms: Harmless
Definition of Harmful
1. a. Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.
Definition of Harmful
1. Adjective. of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Harmful
1. capable of harming [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harmful
Literary usage of Harmful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"... harmful ORGANIC CONSTITUENTS OF THE SOIL In concluding this discussion of some
of the chemical properties of soils it seems desirable to note an ..."
2. Outlines of Economics by Richard Theodore Ely, Thomas Sewall Adams (1908)
"... not because it is excessive or premature, but because it is harmful in itself.
Such are frequently drugs and alcoholic beverages. ..."
3. Conditions of Labor in American Industries: A Summarization of the Results by William Jett Lauck, Edgar Sydenstricker (1917)
"There are, however, certain specific substances and conditions in places of
employment and certain conditions of employment which undoubtedly have harmful ..."
4. Productive Soils: The Fundamentals of Successful Soil Management and by Wilbert Walter Weir (1920)
"Some of these harmful agents are discussed in the following paragraphs— not ...
The wire worm is the young of the click beetle, and is generally harmful to ..."
5. The Interdict: Its History and Its Operation : with Especial Attention to by Edward Benjamin Krehbiel (1909)
"... conditions harmful to the church, and the necessities of ecclesiastics.
A few interdicts were issued on account of conditions which were harmful to ..."
6. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"A lot has been done on the prevention of the exposed persons but the longterm
exposition of smaller concentrations to any of the harmful products leaves the ..."
7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"On evidence that fertilizer sold by defendant contained a harmful ingredient
which caused damage to plaintiff's crops, plaintiff was entitled to go to the ..."
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