| 单词 | harmful |
| 释义 | harmful (once / 1639 pages) adj Things that are harmful hurt people, or are likely to hurt them. Listening to loud music through headphones can be harmful to your hearing. Harmful is an adjective that comes in handy when you're talking about things that cause injury to someone or damage something. Burning coal can be harmful to the environment, and eating too much candy can be harmful for your teeth. Harmful words can hurt someone's feelings and harmful actions might put them in danger. The Old English hearm, "hurt, evil, or grief," is at the root of harmful. WORD FAMILYharmful: harmfully, harmfulness+/harm: harmed, harmful, harming, harmless, harms/harmed: unharmed/harmless: harmlesser, harmlessly USAGE EXAMPLESThis cousin-centrism is like pink hair or a nose ring, not harmful so much as an affront to the way you think things should be. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) He followed her lacewing studies by co-authoring his own, finding that genetically modified crops were not harmful to the lacewing. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) Short-term, localized inflammation is useful for healing; too much or for too long, however, is harmful to cells and organ systems. Time(Dec 29, 2016) adj causing or capable of causing harm too much sun is harmful to the skin harmful effects of smoking Syn|Ant disadvantageous constituting a disadvantage malignevil or harmful in nature or influence destructivecausing destruction or much damage abusivecharacterized by physical or psychological maltreatment badcapable of harming bruisingcausing mental or emotional injury deleterious, hurtful, injuriousharmful to living things calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign catastrophic, ruinousextremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin counterproductivetending to hinder the achievement of a goal damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious(sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury illresulting in suffering or adversity insidious, pernicious, subtleworking or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way mischievousdeliberately causing harm or damage nocenthaving a tendency to cause harm stabbing, woundingcausing physical or especially psychological injury noxiousinjurious to physical or mental health offensivecausing anger or annoyance painfulcausing physical or psychological pain toxicof or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison unwholesomedetrimental to physical or moral well-being harmless not causing or capable of causing harm benign, benignantpleasant and beneficial in nature or influence innocent, innocuouslacking intent or capacity to injure innocuousnot injurious to physical or mental health painlessnot causing physical or psychological pain safefree from danger or the risk of harm atoxic, nontoxicnot producing or resulting from poison |
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