English
Alternative forms
Adjective
harmful (comparative harmfuller or more harmful, superlative harmfullest or most harmful)
- of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious
- Wear a hat to protect your skin from harmful sunlight.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "harmful" is often applied: effect, consequence, impact, influence, emission, chemical, ingredient, substance, gas, agent, additive, drug, radiation, dust, organism, plant, animal, insect, action, act, behavior, component, content, activity, interference, use.
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Translations
likely to be damaging
- Arabic:
- Belarusian: шко́дны m (škódny)
- Catalan: nociu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有害 (zh) (yǒuhài), 不良 (zh) (bùliáng)
- Czech: škodlivý (cs) m
- Danish: skadelig (da)
- Dutch: schadelijk (nl)
- Finnish: vahingollinen (fi)
- French: dangereux (fr), nuisible (fr), nocif (fr)
- German: schädlich (de)
- Icelandic: skaðlegur (is)
- Indonesian: berbahaya (id)
- Irish: aimhleasach, biniúil, damáisteach, díobhálach, dochrach, éigineáil, mímhaitheasach, olc, olcach, urchóideach
- Italian: dannoso (it), nocivo (it)
- Japanese: 有害な (ja) (ゆうがいな, yūgai-na)
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- Javanese: mbebayani
- Macedonian: штетен (šteten)
- Malay: berbahaya
- Maori: whakakino
- Norman: niêsibl'ye m, f (Jersey)
- Norwegian: skadelig
- Persian:
- Polish: szkodliwy (pl)
- Portuguese: prejudicial (pt), nocivo (pt), danoso (pt)
- Romanian: nociv (ro), prejudiciabil (ro)
- Russian: вре́дный (ru) (vrédnyj), вредоно́сный (ru) m (vredonósnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: škodljiv (sh), škodan (sh), štetan (sh)
- Spanish: perjudicial (es), dañino (es), nocivo (es)
- Swedish: skadlig (sv)
- Telugu: హానికరమైన (te) (hānikaramaina)
- Turkish: zararlı (tr)
- Ukrainian: шкідли́вий (škidlývyj), небезпечний (nebezpečnyj)
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