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Harmful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Causing or capable of causing harm; injurious.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Full of harm; hurtful; injurious; noxious; detrimental; mischievous.

Synonyms Pernicious, baneful, deleterious, prejudicial.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. causing or capable of causing harm

Word Usage

"Chinese authorities have in recent months stepped up their already strict control of the flow of information online, including efforts this year to discourage the spread of what they term "harmful information" and "rumors"—words increasingly used for opinions and information not approved by the Communist Party."

Equivalent

libelous ruinous hurtful abusive catastrophic pernicious denigrating calumniatory subtle slanderous

Antonym

harmless beneficial

Cross Reference

injurious harm

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

injurious hurtful mischievous see also

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

injurious beneficial toxic detrimental destructive noxious hurtful undesirable hazardous inappropriate