detrimental
Meaning of detrimental
adjective
- tending to cause harm.
recent policies have been detrimental to the interests of many old people
moving her could have a detrimental effect on her health
Information about detrimental
- It is an adjective.
- The plural form of detrimental is: detrimentals.
- Languages in which detrimental is used:
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Hyphenation of detrimental
detri-men-tal
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- detrimental is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
detrimental synonyms
Meaning damaging:
damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious
Meaning causing or likely to cause harm:
Meaning causing or likely to cause damage or harm:
Meaning causing distress to someone's feelings:
Meaning tending to obstruct or harm:
Meaning causing harm or damage:
Meaning able or likely to cause harm or injury:
Meaning causing great and irreparable damage:
Meaning disastrous or destructive:
Meaning involving calamity; catastrophic or disastrous:
Meaning causing great damage:
Meaning having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way:
Meaning bad or harmful:
Meaning having a harmful effect on:
Meaning harmful or tending to harm:
Meaning threatening harm; menacing:
Meaning evil in nature or effect:
Meaning cause to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain:
Meaning evil in nature or effect; malevolent:
Meaning preventing success or development; harmful; unfavourable:
Meaning not wanted or desirable because harmful, objectionable, or unpleasant:
Meaning likely to lead to an adverse outcome:
Meaning not indicating a good chance of success; inauspicious:
Meaning having the opposite of the desired effect:
Meaning harmful to health:
Meaning not characterized by or conducive to health or moral well-being:
Meaning (of a substance or plant) causing or capable of causing death or illness if taken into the body:
Meaning affected by or showing abnormalities characteristic of cancer:
Meaning harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant:
Meaning causing or able to cause death:
Meaning sufficient to cause death:
Meaning causing death:
Meaning causing harm or destruction, especially by supernatural means:
detrimental antonyms
Meaning gentle and kindly:
Meaning resulting in good; favourable or advantageous:
Translation of detrimental
- German: schädlich, abträglich
- French: pernicieux, nocif, préjudiciable, nuisible, néfaste
- Spanish: nocivo, pernicioso, perniciosa, nociva, perjudicial
Words that rhyme with detrimental
Antal, Cantal, Chantal, Prantal, Santal, antal, anteconsonantal, assonantal, atlantal, biconsonantal, biquadrantal, cantal, consonantal, covenantal, determinantal, discriminantal, dodrantal, gigantal, hidantal, interconsonantal, mantal, occipitoatlantal, octantal, plantal, postconsonantal, preconsonantal, quadrantal, quantal, remnantal, santal, semiconsonantal, sextantal, solantal, sonantal, spirantal, triconsonantal, triquadrantal, unsonantal, Continental, Emmental, Fromental, Labiodental, Occidental, Oriental, Simmental, Trental, Tzental, accidental, accompanimental, adjustmental
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