harmful
adjEtymology
From Middle English harmful, from Old English *hearmful (suggested by hearmfullīċ (“harmful; hurtful”)), equivalent to harm + -ful. Cognate with German harmvoll, Danish harmfuld, Swedish harmfull.
- inherited from *hearmful✻
- inherited from harmful
Definitions
Causing or likely to cause harm or damage
Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious.
- Wear a hat to protect your skin from harmful sunlight.
- Smoking is harmful to the lungs.
- Burning fossil fuels is harmful to the environment.
The neighborhood
- antonymbeneficial
- antonymharmless
- antonymhelpful
- antonymvaluable
- antonyminnocent
- antonyminnocuous
- antonyminnoxious
- antonyminoffensive
- antonymundamaging
- antonymunharmful
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at harmful. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at harmful. 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 harmful
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