Detriment
['detrɪm(ə)nt] or ['dɛtrɪmənt]
Definition
(n.) That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc.
(n.) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
(v. t.) To do injury to; to hurt.
Editor: Megan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Loss, damage, injury, disadvantage, mischief, prejudice, evil, harm, hurt.
Checked by Benita
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Loss, harm, hurt, injury, deterioration, impairment, disadvantage, prejudice,damage, inconvenience
ANT:Enhancement, improvement, remedy, reinstatement, repair, augmentation
Inputed by Dan
Definition
n. diminution: damage: loss.—adj. Detriment′al.
Editor: Lora
Examples
- But the objective man, in Nietzsche's opinion, distrusts his own personality and regards it as some thing to be set aside as accidental, and a detriment to calm judgment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- You won't make any use of it to my detriment at Kenge and Carboy's or elsewhere. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If one may ask it without detriment to your deep plans in the interests of the honest public? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These stresses could be used for the benefit of this power or the detriment of that. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The individual interfered at his peril, and only to the detriment of the truth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Priscilla