adj.

Causing damage or harm; injurious.

detrimentally det'ri·men'tal·ly adv.

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adjective

Causing harm or injury: bad, deleterious, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous. See help/harm/harmless.

adj

Definition: damaging, disadvantageous
Antonyms: advantageous, assisting, beneficial, helpful, profitable

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Common misspelling(s) of detrimental

• detremental

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - skadelig, ufordelagtig

Nederlands (Dutch)
nadelig, schadelijk

Français (French)
adj. - nuisible, préjudiciable, qui nuit, qui cause un préjudice

Deutsch (German)
adj. - abträglich, schädlich

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - επιβλαβής, επιζήμιος

Italiano (Italian)
dannoso

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - prejudicial

Русский (Russian)
вредный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - perjudicial

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - skadlig

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
有害的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 有害的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 불리한, 유해한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 有害な
n. - 有害な人

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مؤذ, ضار‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮פוגע, מזיק‬

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