detrimental
11detrimental — I. adjective Date: 1590 obviously harmful ; damaging < the detrimental effects of pollution > Synonyms: see pernicious • detrimentally adverb II. noun Date: 1831 an undesirable or harmful person or …
12detrimental — detrimentality, detrimentalness, n. detrimentally, adv. /de treuh men tl/, adj. 1. causing detriment; damaging; harmful. n. 2. a detrimental person or thing. [1650 60; DETRIMENT + AL1] * * * …
13detrimental — adjective Causing damage or harm. Smoking tobacco can be detrimental to your health. Syn: harmful, injurious Ant: beneficial See Also: detriment …
14detrimental — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. damaging, disturbing, deleterious; see harmful , pernicious . See Synonym Study at pernicious . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a.. [det ruh MEN tul] causing harm. Neglecting to wax your car is… …
15detrimental — det|ri|men|tal [ ,detrı mentl ] adjective harmful or damaging: Overexposure to sunlight can have a detrimental effect on the skin. ╾ det|ri|men|tal|ly adverb …
16detrimental — adjective formal causing harm or damage (+ to): Smoking is detrimental to health. detrimentally adverb …
17detrimental — adjective erosion can have a detrimental effect on our water Syn: harmful, damaging, injurious, hurtful, inimical, deleterious, destructive, ruinous, disastrous, bad, malign, adverse, undesirable, unfavorable, unfortunate; unhealthy, unwholesome …
18detrimental — UK [ˌdetrɪˈment(ə)l] / US adjective harmful or damaging Overexposure to sunlight can have a detrimental effect on the skin. Derived word: detrimentally adverb …
19detrimental — det•ri•men•tal [[t]ˌdɛ trəˈmɛn tl[/t]] adj. 1) damaging; harmful 2) cvb a detrimental person or thing • Etymology: 1650–60 det ri•men′tal•ly, adv …
20detrimental — detriment ► NOUN ▪ harm or damage: she fasted to the detriment of her health. DERIVATIVES detrimental adjective detrimentally adjective. ORIGIN Latin detrimentum, from deterere wear away …
