harmful

harmful
of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious

Wear a hat to protect your skin from harmful sunlight.

Ant: beneficial, harmless

Wikipedia foundation.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?
Synonyms:

Look at other dictionaries:

  • harmful — harm·ful adj: of a kind likely to cause harm harm·ful·ly adv harm·ful·ness n Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. harmful …   Law dictionary

  • Harmful — live im M …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Harmful — Harm ful (h[aum]rm f[.u]l), a. Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. Most harmful hazards. Strype. {Harm ful*ly}, adv. {Harm ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • harmful — mid 14c., from HARM (Cf. harm) (n.) + FUL (Cf. ful). Related: Harmfully …   Etymology dictionary

  • harmful — [adj] injurious, hurtful adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, corroding, corrupting, crippling, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, harassing,… …   New thesaurus

  • harmful — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ causing or likely to cause harm. DERIVATIVES harmfully adverb harmfulness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • harmful — [härm′fəl] adj. causing or able to cause harm; hurtful harmfully adv. harmfulness n …   English World dictionary

  • harmful */ — UK [ˈhɑː(r)mf(ə)l] / US [ˈhɑrmfəl] adjective Get it right: harmful: The usual preposition to use with harmful is to (not for ): Wrong: Smoking is harmful for smokers and non smokers. Right: Smoking is harmful to smokers and non smokers. Wrong:… …   English dictionary

  • harmful — adj. VERBS ▪ be, prove ▪ The spraying could prove harmful to humans. ▪ become ▪ consider sth ▪ She actually considered fresh air harmful …   Collocations dictionary

  • harmful — adj. 1) harmful to (harmful to one s health) 2) harmful to + inf. (it s harmful to smoke) * * * [ hɑːmf(ə)l] harmful to + inf. (it s harmful to smoke) harmful to (harmful to one s health) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • Harmful — Infobox musical artist Name = Harmful Img capt = Background = group or band Origin = Frankfurt, Germany Genre = Rock Alternative rock Noise rock Years active = 1992 ndash;present Label = Nois o lution URL = http://www.harmfulweb.de/ Current… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”