detrimental
causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
a detrimental person or thing.
Origin of detrimental
1Other words from detrimental
- det·ri·men·tal·i·ty, det·ri·men·tal·ness, noun
- det·ri·men·tal·ly, adverb
- non·det·ri·men·tal, adjective
- non·det·ri·men·tal·ly, adverb
- pre·det·ri·men·tal, adjective
- un·det·ri·men·tal, adjective
- un·det·ri·men·tal·ly, adverb
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How to use detrimental in a sentence
Also known as CFIUS, the organization has the ability to block acquisitions it deems detrimental to national security.
For anyone, two years of confinement and zero in-person visits from friends and family can be detrimental, and yet, Mambetov was eventually able to pick up where she left off in 2016.
This is because having too many 404s can prove to be detrimental to your user’s experience.
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Why the most controversial US internet law is worth saving | Amy Nordrum | September 9, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIt’s only been a year, we don’t yet know whether these treatments may have some sort of detrimental effect in the longer term, and the treatment itself can still be improved.
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Nevertheless, even so, it is a mischievous confusion of thought which must act detrimentally upon conduct.
Life's Basis and Life's Ideal | Rudolf EuckenThe poor woman's physical sufferings had without doubt reacted detrimentally on her temperament and temper.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettNot a man but knew that the losses in defence had been detrimentally disproportionate.
The Triumph of John Kars | Ridgwell CullumThis superfluous air only acts detrimentally, by cooling the flame.
The want of priests, too, throughout the country, operated very detrimentally upon the people.
British Dictionary definitions for detrimental
/ (ˌdɛtrɪˈmɛntəl) /
(when postpositive, foll by to) harmful; injurious; prejudicial: smoking can be detrimental to health
Derived forms of detrimental
- detrimentally, adverb
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