📖 Definitions of "Detrimental"
adjective
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Causing damage or harm.
"Smoking tobacco can be detrimental to your health."
🔄 Synonyms of "Detrimental"
4 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| harmful | Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious. |
| prejudicial | Causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious. |
| damaging | Causing damage; harmful, injurious. |
| prejudicious | (rare) Acting with prejudice; having prejudice. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Detrimental"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| damaging | Causing damage; harmful, injurious. |
| harmful | Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious. |
| prejudicial | Causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious. |
| prejudicious | (rare) Acting with prejudice; having prejudice. |
| injurious | Causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful. |
| hurtful | Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting; lacerating. |
| deleterious | (formal) Harmful, often in a subtle or unexpected way. |
| noxious | Harmful; injurious. |
| devastating | Causing devastation. |
| harmnoun | Physical injury; hurt; damage. |
| pernicious | Causing much harm in a subtle way. |
| disastrous | Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous. |
| calamitous | Causing or involving calamity; disastrous. |
| destructive | Causing destruction; damaging. |
| disruptive | (business) Causing major change, as in a market. |
| ruinous | Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous. |
| debilitating | Causing a loss of energy or strength. |
| damaged | That has suffered damage. |
| crippling | Causing a severe and insurmountable problem; detrimental. |
| vicious | Violent, destructive and cruel. |
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