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Synonyms of detrimental in English:

detrimental


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adjective

1‘the erosion will have a detrimental effect on water quality’

SYNONYMS
harmful, damaging, injurious, hurtful, inimical, deleterious, dangerous, destructive, ruinous, calamitous, disastrous, pernicious, environmentally unfriendly, ill, bad, evil, baleful, malign, corrupting, malignant, adverse, undesirable, prejudicial, unfavourable, unfortunate, counterproductive
unhealthy, unwholesome, poisonous, cancerous, noxious, deadly, lethal, fatal
literary malefic, maleficent
rare prejudicious
ANTONYMS

benign, beneficial