Thesaurus:harmful

Thesaurus

harmful

English

Adjective

Sense: likely to cause harm or damage

Synonyms

• harmful
• damaging
• deleterious
• detrimental
• hurtful
• inimical
• injurious
• mischievous
• nocent
• nocuous
• noxious
• noisome
• prejudicial
• scathand
• scathel
• venom (obsolete)

Hyponyms

• baneful
• pernicious
• malignant
•   —
• insalubrious
• unhealthful
• unhealthy
• unwholesome
• poisonous
• toxic
• lethal
• deadly

Antonyms

• beneficial
• helpful
• valuable    [⇒ thesaurus]
• harmless
• innocent    [⇒ thesaurus]
• innocuous
• innoxious
• inoffensive
• undamaging
• unharmful

Further reading

• “649. badness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “harmful” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.