hurtful

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dangerous and harmful
adverse
adverse conditions
adverse effect
adverse publicity
adverse reaction
deleteriously
destabilizing
destructive
destructively
destructiveness
inimically
injurious
injuriously
insidious
insidiousness
self-destruction
self-destructive
stinking thinking
toxicity
treacherously

Examples of detrimental

detrimental
Some of these compounds have been detrimental to the environment, and all too often the disease organisms being targeted have developed resistance.
While it may be conducive to bean growth, deep hoeing may be detrimental to bananas or other perennials associated with the trees.
The competition was detrimental primarily to the cacao trees.
Unprotected freezing of human spermatozoa exerts a detrimental effect on their oocyte activating capacity and chromosome integrity.
Thus, including these cases appeared less detrimental in terms of potential to bias results than excluding them.
Violation of these rules of engagement can have detrimental, even fatal, effects.
More often than not, damage-control treatment was applied to documents that contained the material detrimental to the legitimacy of the emperor or the regime.
These positive results, along with the analysis refute claims that corporatist institutions are inherently more detrimental to enhanced environmental protection than their pluralist counterparts.
Yet not all genetic experiments are detrimental to the welfare of animals although the motives behind them may well be selfish.
However, in the same way as pathological fear and anxiety are debilitating, excessive sickness behaviour can be detrimental.
This was significant to test system behavior in the presence of strong detrimental errors effects.
Setting benchmarks or limits on detrimental activity has a more conventional counterpart when treated as missing resource markets.
In both cases, a mutation that would be detrimental in the absence of a parasite is retained because it provides survival value in parasitized individuals.
Unexpectedly high (low) rates of growth represent improvements (declines) over recent trends that voters could logically attribute to effective (detrimental) government macroeconomic policies.
The fact that equine serum was detrimental to parasite growth supports this hypothesis.
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