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Definition of harmful in English: harmfuladjective ˈhɑːmf(ə)lˈhɑːmfʊlˈhɑrmfəl Causing or likely to cause harm. the ozone layer blocks the harmful rays from the sun sugars which can be harmful to the teeth Example sentencesExamples - Not all these chemicals are healthy, not all are harmful, most can be either.
- It is not unusual to find substances in illegal drugs that are much more harmful than the drugs themselves.
- Chocolate is legal and more effective and also has no harmful side-effects whatsoever.
- Are the more sexual representations merely offensive, or can they be genuinely harmful?
- It is quite a harmful chemical and may produce adverse reactions.
- CFC gas damages the ozone layer which protects the earth from harmful rays from the sun.
- Pollution on our roads is far more harmful to us all than cigarette smoke will ever be.
- My mother was so protective that now I feel it was actually quite harmful to me.
- This is a highly controversial treatment and it is suggested that it might be harmful.
- It is the acidic environment produced by the harmful bugs that results in tooth decay.
- The lack of atmosphere also means there's no protection from harmful radiation in the solar wind.
- High work demands and high mobilisation of efforts at work may not always indicate harmful stress.
- There are alternative fuels, some less harmful to the atmosphere and some which do no harm at all.
- More drugs fail clinical tests because of harmful effects on the liver than for any other reason.
- To restrict fluid to the extent of causing dehydration may even be harmful.
- The lining of the stomach produces a B acid to help digest food and also protect from harmful bacteria.
- It could be said that alcohol and tobacco are much more harmful drugs than either cocaine or heroin.
- We learn patterns of behaviour there - some of which are useful, some of which are harmful.
- From what I've been told smoking cannabis is allegedly less harmful than cigarettes.
- The Thames has highly dangerous levels of e.coli and other harmful bacteria.
Synonyms damaging, injurious, detrimental, dangerous, deleterious, unfavourable, negative, disadvantageous, unhealthy, unwholesome, hurtful, baleful, wounding, destructive, environmentally unfriendly noxious, hazardous, poisonous, toxic, deadly, lethal bad, evil, malign, malignant, malevolent, corrupting, subversive, pernicious rare baneful, maleficent, malefic
Derivatives adverb ˈhɑːmfʊliˈhɑːmf(ə)liˈhɑrmfəli Brian looked like the romantic, idealistic and harmfully quixotic sort. Example sentencesExamples - It's important to tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking St John's wort (or thinking of taking it) as it can interact harmfully with other medicines you might be on.
- Even in the worst instances, such as the explosion at a chemical plant in Seveso, Italy in 1976, nobody has ever been exposed to harmfully high doses for prolonged periods.
- Although in a modern Western diet salt is plentiful - sometimes harmfully superfluous - its normal concentration in the body fluids is essential to the maintenance of a normal blood volume.
- Explanations requiring the supernatural are now not merely quaint but harmfully distracting to children and other innocents.
nounˈhɑːmfʊlnəsˈhɑːmf(ə)lnəsˈhɑrmfəlnəs A form that has a soothing, healing effect is the result of a mind that is free from harmfulness and defects. Example sentencesExamples - If some members of a set differ in some important way from the others, usually in terms of their danger or harmfulness, they are put into another group.
- The present study confirmed the harmfulness of bidis in the causation of lung cancer.
- In the early 20th century the practice of spirit worship, along with a host of other religious practices, was assailed by urban intellectuals for its purported backwardness, ignorance and harmfulness.
- The fact is that cults can only be consistently defined and opposed on grounds of their harmfulness.
Definition of harmful in US English: harmfuladjectiveˈhärmfəlˈhɑrmfəl Causing or likely to cause harm. sugars that can be harmful to the teeth shield the planet from harmful cosmic rays Example sentencesExamples - Are the more sexual representations merely offensive, or can they be genuinely harmful?
- We learn patterns of behaviour there - some of which are useful, some of which are harmful.
- It is not unusual to find substances in illegal drugs that are much more harmful than the drugs themselves.
- It could be said that alcohol and tobacco are much more harmful drugs than either cocaine or heroin.
- More drugs fail clinical tests because of harmful effects on the liver than for any other reason.
- The Thames has highly dangerous levels of e.coli and other harmful bacteria.
- My mother was so protective that now I feel it was actually quite harmful to me.
- Not all these chemicals are healthy, not all are harmful, most can be either.
- CFC gas damages the ozone layer which protects the earth from harmful rays from the sun.
- This is a highly controversial treatment and it is suggested that it might be harmful.
- From what I've been told smoking cannabis is allegedly less harmful than cigarettes.
- To restrict fluid to the extent of causing dehydration may even be harmful.
- There are alternative fuels, some less harmful to the atmosphere and some which do no harm at all.
- Chocolate is legal and more effective and also has no harmful side-effects whatsoever.
- Pollution on our roads is far more harmful to us all than cigarette smoke will ever be.
- The lack of atmosphere also means there's no protection from harmful radiation in the solar wind.
- It is the acidic environment produced by the harmful bugs that results in tooth decay.
- The lining of the stomach produces a B acid to help digest food and also protect from harmful bacteria.
- It is quite a harmful chemical and may produce adverse reactions.
- High work demands and high mobilisation of efforts at work may not always indicate harmful stress.
Synonyms damaging, injurious, detrimental, dangerous, deleterious, unfavourable, negative, disadvantageous, unhealthy, unwholesome, hurtful, baleful, wounding, destructive, environmentally unfriendly
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