harmful
Adjective
- Causing damage, injury, or detriment.
- causing or capable of causing harm
- "too much sun is harmful to the skin"
- "harmful effects of smoking"
Adj
- Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious.
Examples
- Burning fossil fuels is harmful to the environment.
- Playing a word that opens up a triple-word score for your opponent is quite harmful.
- Smoking is harmful to the lungs.
- Wear a hat to protect your skin from harmful sunlight.
Origin / 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
damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, prejudicial, scathand, scathel, sullen, venom
Antonyms
harmless, beneficial, helpful, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, undamaging, unharmful, valuable
Scrabble Score: 15
harmful: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordharmful: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
harmful: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary