Detrimental

Word DETRIMENTAL
Character 11
Hyphenation det ri men tal
Pronunciations /ˌdɛtɹɪˈmɛntəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Detrimental"

What do we mean by detrimental?

Causing damage or harm; injurious. adjective

Injurious; hurtful; causing harm or damage.

Synonyms Prejudicial, disadvantageous, mischievous, pernicious.

See the extract. noun

Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. adjective

Causing damage or harm. adjective

(sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury adjective

Causing damage or harm.

I group or gang of 5-10 people usually killing anything in thier path. Urban Dictionary

Detrimental is an adjective that means harmful or tending to cause harm. It can also be used to mean prejudicial, disadvantageous or counterproductive. Urban Dictionary

A result of harm or damage. A negative effect. Urban Dictionary

Of much or great significance or consequence Urban Dictionary

1- N. The act and/or process of causing harm or damage to everyone around you in a Call of Duty game. Urban Dictionary

The opposite of friends with benefits. A close friend who relies on you emotionally but there is no physical intimacy Involved. See also: HMNR. Urban Dictionary

The opposite of a friend with benefits. this a person with whom you maintain some form of emotional (hopefully mutual) relationship, but for whatever reason has ceased the physical (sexual) aspects. it may be an on again off again situation or just one that has stagnated to no longer manifest itself in physical affection though for some god forsaken reason still won't die completely. inexplicably these arrangements call for mutual exclusivity resulting in two sexually unsatisfied parties Urban Dictionary

Blaming one's self, hurting one's self, etc almost everything negative that you do to yourself belongs in this category Urban Dictionary

Down bad horny. Urban Dictionary

Compound noun. Information that one is better off not knowing or being exposed to. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Detrimental

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The word "detrimental" in example sentences

Not possible, potential, or probable harm; detrimental is concrete, demonstrable harm or damage, actually causing injury. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In this study we did not see any evidence for a longer-term detrimental influence on child behaviour of mothers working during the first year of life. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Further, detrimental is not a standard that money alone can solve in this society. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I understand that abuse of the system will have long-term detrimental effects. ❋ Andy Schupak (2011)

You have it reversed, detrimental is a (much) farther standard that unfit parenting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Overcrowded classrooms, tens of thousands of children failing academically, all of these things, they have long-term detrimental consequences," he said. ❋ Janine Zacharia (2010)

Even researchers who have found that pot use has long-term detrimental effects, like the link to psychosis that was announced earlier this week, tend to qualify their statements by noting that the link is "by no means simple" and arguing that we need a lot more research. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That's a good thing, individually, but it can have short-term detrimental effects in an economy that's 70 percent based on consumer spending. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, the House vote and the negative US votes at the UN will have long-term detrimental effects both on Israel and on the U. S.\'s moral authority. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, the House vote and the negative US votes at the UN will have long-term detrimental effects both on Israel and on the U. S.'s moral authority. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well, even an uncomplicated pregnancy has identifiable medium term detrimental effects on the health of the mother, whereas lack of cosmetic surgery does not corrective surgery is not cosmetic, so a ‘right to avoid harm’ could be implicated. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This aims to provide maximum protection for the natural and historical assets of the reserve, to repair past damage as far as is desirable and practical, and to encourage research and data-collecting programs on the natural and historical features of the region, providing that they have no long-term detrimental effects. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Any aid coming from neibouring countries will be timely and without any long term detrimental implications to Myanmar. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Indeed, further assume what appears to be the case here: that the very reason a statutory amendment would be detrimental is that it benefits our intelligence operations to have the enemy believe that what our intelligence agencies are doing is unlawful. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Namibia had signed the interim deal on the proviso that it could continue to negotiate on issues "with long-term detrimental policy implications for Namibia," deputy trade and industry minister Bernard ❋ Unknown (2007)

As for your wish for empirical evidence that paying judges a fraction of what they might otherwise earn has a long term detrimental effect on the quality of judges, I would counter with the following: ❋ Unknown (2007)

In part, because much of the way we have developed our images of non-western people is through anthropological research, and much of that work has had a long term detrimental impact on people in societies that early anthropologists have labled “primitive.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

And we know the traumatic effect that that has on children, and the long-term detrimental affect on their development and learning, if we don't do something urgently. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And when that status of the magazine maybe declines or no longer is in publication that could have very long term detrimental effects. ❋ Unknown (2003)

[example] TEAM3D [vs] [cal-o] ❋ Ej (2004)

Most people [realise] that smoking is [detrimental] to your [health]. ❋ AKACroatalin (2015)

He was [elected] to the detriment of every burrough [in New York].. She thought that her brains were a detriment to her [appeal]. ❋ Byline (2013)

a [detrimental] [event] in [world history] ❋ Wikipedia Dictionary Online (2014)

GGlogics keeps [failing] to properly [setup] [the rules] for the game, therefore, he is the definition of detrimentalism. ❋ ImNACHO (2014)

I've known [Leila] for three years. She calls me up to talk whenever she has a fight with one of [the losers] she happens to be seeing. I like her a lot but we are totally [just friends] with detriments. ❋ Aegiswings (2008)

I totally [would've] hooked up with that chick but I still got this friends with detriments thing [going with] [suzy] ❋ Thetommyshow (2010)

Her [words] were [dripping] with self-detriment. ❋ WeaBilly (2015)

[Doinked] is [detrimentally horny]. ❋ Qiiett420 (2021)

Bro 1: That chick you're [crushing] on was enthusiastically promiscuous for a year after she [divorced]. Bro 2: That's [detrimental information], man. ❋ Bro Ally (2013)

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