harmful

1. Causing or capable of causing harm (synset 301163575)
   "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"
   also:

   • disadvantageous, unfavorable, unfavourable - involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness
   • malign - evil or harmful in nature or influence
   • destructive - causing destruction or much damage
   • noxious - injurious to physical or mental health
   • offensive - causing anger or annoyance
   • painful - causing physical or psychological pain
   • toxic - of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison
   • unwholesome - detrimental to physical or moral well-being
   similar to:

   • abusive - characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment
   • bad - capable of harming
   • bruising - causing mental or emotional injury
   • deleterious, hurtful, injurious - harmful to living things
   • calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous - (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
   • catastrophic, ruinous - extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
   • counterproductive - tending to hinder the achievement of a goal
   • damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious - (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury
   • ill - resulting in suffering or adversity
   • insidious, pernicious, subtle - working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
   • mischievous - deliberately causing harm or damage
   • nocent - having a tendency to cause harm
   • stabbing, wounding - causing physical or especially psychological injury

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