Meaning of DETRIMENTAL
| Pronunciation: | | `detru'mentl
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| | Definition: | | [adj] (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant" |
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| | Synonyms: | | damaging, harmful, prejudicial, prejudicious |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Det`ri*men"tal\, a.
Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful.
Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor.
--Addison.
Syn: Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous;
mischievous; pernicious.
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| | Related Terms: | | adverse, antagonistic, bad, baleful, baneful, conflicting, contrary, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counter, counteractive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, deleterious, destructive, difficult, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, evil, hard, harmful, hostile, hurtful, ill, in opposition, inimical, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, miserable, negative, noisome, not easy, noxious, ominous, opposed, opposing, opposite, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, rigorous, scatheful, sinister, stressful, toxic, troublesome, troublous, trying, unadvantageous, unfavorable, unprofitable, unrewarding, untoward, useless, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, worthless, wretched |
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