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   Det·ri·men·tal

   /ˌdetrəˈmen(t)l/

   

   adjective

   • 1. tending to cause harm: "moving her could have a detrimental effect on her health"

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   • 1. detrimentally adverb

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   What does detrimental mean in English?

   • According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “detrimental” as an adjective can have the following definitions: Causing harm or injury. Tending to cause harm. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury.

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   What does causing detriment mean?

   • causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful. a detrimental person or thing. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. It’s De Rigueur To Take The Word Of The Day Quiz! Do the fashionable thing and recall the words from January 15–21, 2024!

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   What is a detrimental effect?

   • What we may do to correct, insure or perfect our healthy tissues will have a detrimental effect upon some other part of our body. All their effect on him was detrimental: they turned him black. Detrimental definition: . See examples of DETRIMENTAL used in a sentence.

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   Where did the word detrimental come from?

   • The word detrimental was formed from the word detriment. Detriment is a noun that has been used since the 15th century to mean some incapacity, and since the mid-15th century to refer to some harm or injury. This comes from the Old French détriment or possibly directly from the Latin detrimentum, meaning some loss or defeat.

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   detrimental. harmful synonym damaging the sun's detrimental effect on skin The policy will be detrimental to the peace process. Definition of detrimental adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   detrimental (to somebody/something) harmful synonym damaging. the sun’s detrimental effect on skin; The policy will be detrimental to the peace process. This move could be seriously detrimental to the economy. Emissions from the factory are widely suspected of having a detrimental effect on health.

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   Detrimental definition: causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful. See examples of DETRIMENTAL used in a sentence.

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   The meaning of DETRIMENTAL is obviously harmful : damaging. How to use detrimental in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Detrimental.

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   detrimental meaning, definition, what is detrimental: causing harm or damage: Learn more.

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   adjective. These are words and phrases related to detrimental. Click on any word or phrase to go to its thesaurus page. Or, go to the definition of detrimental. HEAVY. Synonyms. damaging. injurious. ruinous. calamitous. destructive. deadly. crushing. pernicious. deleterious. heavy. burdensome. oppressive. hard to endure. onerous. harrowing.

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   in a way that causes harm or damage: detrimentally affected She argues that local residents will be detrimentally affected by the proposed development. The company were aware that late payments would detrimentally impact the business.