Harmful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Harmful \Harm"ful\ (h[aum]rm"f[.u]l), a.
     Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. " Most harmful
     hazards." --Strype. --{Harm"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Harm"ful*ness},
     n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  harmful
       adj 1: injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical
              wastes"; "noxious ideas" [syn: {noxious}] [ant: {innocuous}]
       2: able or likely to do harm
       3: causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful
          to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" [ant: {harmless}]
       4: constituting a disadvantage [syn: {disadvantageous}] [ant: {advantageous}]
       5: contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse
          circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the
          most untoward conditions" [syn: {adverse}, {inauspicious},
           {untoward}]
       6: tending to cause great harm [syn: {evil}, {injurious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  102 Moby Thesaurus words for "harmful":
     adverse, antagonistic, bad, bad for, baleful, baneful, bitchy,
     conflicting, contaminated, contrary, corroding, corrosive,
     corrupting, corruptive, counter, counteractive, counterproductive,
     cussed, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive,
     detrimental, difficult, disadvantageous, disserviceable,
     distressing, evil, foul, hard, hateful, hazardous, hostile,
     hurtful, ill, in opposition, inimical, iniquitous, injurious,
     insalubrious, insanitary, invidious, lethal, malefic, maleficent,
     malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous,
     miserable, morbific, nasty, noisome, not easy, noxious, ominous,
     opposed, opposing, opposite, ornery, pathogenic, peccant,
     pernicious, pestiferous, poisonous, polluted, prejudicial,
     rigorous, risky, scatheful, septic, sinister, stressful, tainted,
     toxic, troublesome, troublous, trying, unadvantageous, unfavorable,
     unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unprofitable, unrewarding,
     unsafe, unsanitary, untoward, unwholesome, useless, venenate,
     veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wicked,
     worthless, wretched