Harmful
['hɑːmfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['hɑrmfəl]
Definition
(adj.) causing or capable of causing harm; 'too much sun is harmful to the skin'; 'harmful effects of smoking' .
Editor: Lorna--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.
Typist: Pansy
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Injurious, detrimental, mischievous, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, baneful, prejudicial, disadvantageous, hurtful.
Inputed by Errol
Examples
- Is the truth harmful? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Too great humidity is enervating, and not conducive to either mental or physical exertion; on the other hand, too dry air is equally harmful. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- You may read the note before you deliver it, that you may know that it contains nothing harmful to Zat Arras. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It is certainly a most stupid, expensive, and harmful habit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The impure liquid will thus contaminate the otherwise pure water and will render it decidedly harmful. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But we shall see that even these apparently harmful effects of light are in reality of great value in man's constant battle against disease. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Since baking powders in some form are used in almost all homes for the raising of cake and pastry dough, it is essential that their helpful and harmful qualities be clearly understood. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But this property of bases, harmful in one way, is put to advantage in the home, where grease is removed from drainpipe and sink by the application of lye, a strong base. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And the fact in itself still seemed harmless enough; only it was a fertile source of harmful complications. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Not all micro?rganisms are harmful; some are our friends and are as helpful to us as are cultivated plants and domesticated animals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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