Adjective: harmful haa(r)m-ful
- Causing or capable of causing harm
"too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"
See also: abusive, bad, bruising, calumniatory, calumnious, catastrophic, counterproductive, damaging, defamatory, deleterious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, hurtful, ill, injurious, insidious, libellous, libelous [US], malign, mischievous, nocent, noxious, offensive, painful, pernicious, prejudicial, prejudicious, ruinous, slanderous, stabbing, subtle, toxic, unfavorable [US], unfavourable [Brit, Cdn], unwholesome, wounding
Antonym: harmless
Encyclopedia: Harmful