Definisjon av Harmful

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Adjective

harmful - causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"
harmless not causing or capable of causing harm; "harmless bacteria"; "rendered the bomb harmless"
destructive causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"
disadvantageous constituting a disadvantage
malign evil or harmful in nature or influence; "prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion"
noxious injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"
offensive unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
painful causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness"
toxic of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison; "suffering from exposure to toxic substances"
unwholesome detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
abusive characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"
bad feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
bruising brutally forceful and compelling; "protected from the bruising facts of battle"
deleterious, injurious, hurtful harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
catastrophic, ruinous extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"
counterproductive tending to hinder the achievement of a goal
detrimental, damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism"
ill presaging ill fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
pernicious, insidious, subtle working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
mischievous deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods"
nocent having a tendency to cause harm
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Adjektiv

Harmful - Of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious.

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  • Harmful
    Causing damage or harm.

Adjektiv - Gradbøying

  • Positiv: harmful
  • Komparativ: harmfuller / more harmful
  • Superlativ: harmfullest / most harmful

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