damaging
[adjective]
Synonyms: harmful, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, hurtful, injurious, ruinous

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English Thesaurus: harmful, be bad for somebody/something, damaging, detrimental, negative, ...

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dam‧ag‧ing /ˈdæmɪdʒɪŋ/ adjective
[Word Family: noun: damage, damages; verb: damage; adjective: damaging]

1. causing physical harm to someone or something:
the damaging effects of sunlight

2. affecting someone or something in a bad way:
damaging criticism of his policies
damaging to
The loss of jobs was damaging to morale.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

damaging
adj.
VERBS be, prove | become
ADV. deeply, extremely, gravely, highly, immensely, profoundly, seriously, severely, very This scandal could prove seriously damaging to the government.
quite, rather | possibly, potentially | positively These new measures will do nothing to raise school standards: they may be positively damaging.
economically, environmentally, politically, psychologically Building the proposed new road would be environmentally damaging.
PREP. to Smoking is damaging to health.

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harmful causing physical harm – used especially about things that cause harm to your health, the environment etc:
Smoking is harmful to your health.
drugs with harmful side-effects
be bad for somebody/something to have a harmful effect on someone or something. This phrase is very commonly used in everyday English when saying that something is harmful:
Everyone knows that too much alcohol is bad for you.
damaging used about things that cause permanent physical harm, or that have a bad effect in other ways, for example on people’s opinion of someone:
Acid rain has a damaging effect on trees and the soil.
The allegations were very damaging to his career.
Constant criticism is damaging to a child’s self-esteem.
detrimental formal causing harm or having a bad effect on something:
Employers are worried that the new laws will have a detrimental effect on their business.
chemicals that are detrimental to the environment
policies that have been detrimental to the interests of old people
negative a negative effect is one that is bad and causes problems:
The car tax had a negative effect on car sales.
the negative impact of the recession in the US
hazardous hazardous substances are likely to be dangerous to people’s health and safety:
Hazardous waste needs to be disposed of safely.
hazardous chemicals
toxic toxic substances, smoke etc are poisonous:
toxic waste
toxic fumes
Toxic chemicals spilled into the river.
pernicious /pəˈnɪʃəs $ pər-/ formal used about something that has a gradual bad effect which is not easy to notice, especially on people’s morals, or on their health:
the pernicious effects of violent video games
the pernicious effect of secondhand smoke

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