English Explanatory Dictionary

harmful

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious.

Pronunciation

/ˈhɑːmfl̩/ /ˈhɑɹmfl̩/ en-us-harmful.ogg

Word forms

harmful harmfuller more harmful harmfullest most harmful harmfull

Etymology

From Middle English harmful, from Old English *hearmful (suggested by hearmfullīċ (“harmful; hurtful”)), equivalent to harm + -ful. Cognate with German harmvoll, Danish harmfuld, Swedish harmfull.

Synonyms

injurious harmful damaging deleterious detrimental hurtful inimical mischievous nocent nocuous noxious noisome prejudicial scathand scathel sullen venom

Antonyms

beneficial harmless helpful valuable innocent innocuous innoxious inoffensive undamaging unharmful

Related words

harm disastrous

Derived words

harmfully harmfulness nonharmful unharmful
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