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detrimental adjective [ ˌdɛtrɪˈmɛnt(ə)l ]

• tending to cause harm.
• "recent policies have been detrimental to the interests of many old people"
Similar: harmful, damaging, injurious, hurtful, inimical, deleterious, dangerous, destructive, ruinous, calamitous, disastrous, pernicious, environmentally unfriendly, ill, bad, evil, baleful, malign, corrupting, malignant, adverse, undesirable, prejudicial, unfavourable, unfortunate, counterproductive, unhealthy, unwholesome, poisonous, cancerous, noxious, deadly, lethal, fatal, malefic, maleficent, prejudicious,
Opposite: benign, beneficial,


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