harmful

[HarmĀ·ful]

Things that are harmful hurt people, or are likely to hurt them. Listening to loud music through headphones can be harmful to your hearing.

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Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.

Adjective
constituting a disadvantage

Adjective S.
tending to cause great harm

Adjective S.
contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"

Adjective
causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"

Adjective
injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"

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Adjective S.
able or likely to do harm


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


Harmful

Harm"ful , a. Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. " Most harmful hazards." Strype. --Harm"ful*ly, adv. -- Harm"ful*ness, n.

Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.

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Usage Examples

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

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Other Usage Examples

It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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