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detrimental

adj
/ˌdɛtɹɪˈmɛntəl/

Etymology

From Medieval Latin *dētrīmentālis, from Latin dētrīmentum (“harm”), from dēterō (“to rub off, wear”), from dē- (“down, away”) + terō (“to rub or grab”).

  1. derived from dētrīmentum
  2. borrowed from *dētrīmentālis✻

Definitions

  1. Causing damage or harm.

    • Smoking tobacco can be detrimental to your health.
    • It agrees that redundant services should not be continued but is not unmindful of the fact that too much retrenchment of rail services now may ultimately prove detrimental to the economy of the country.

  2. Anything harmful.

    • The definition of a parasite is a microbe that lives in you or on you to its benefit and to your detriment. In other words, the detrimentals suck the life out of you.
    • I'm afraid it may be the detrimentals, the poets, and æsthetes, and impressionist painters, who will rave about her.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at detrimental. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at detrimental. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at detrimental

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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