detriments
Meaning of detriments
- the state of being harmed or damaged.
he is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life
light industry can be carried out in a residential area without detriment to its amenities
late Middle English in the sense ‘loss sustained by damage’: from Old French, from Latin detrimentum, from detri-, stem of deterere ‘wear away’.
Information about detriments
- It is a name.
- The singular form of detriments is: detriment.
- Languages in which detriments is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of detriments
detri-ments
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- detriments is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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