detrimental

/,detri'mentl/

Thân thiện

The detrimental effects of smoking are well-documented.

Definition

Adjective: Causing harm, damage, or negative effects; injurious.

Usage

The adjective "detrimental" describes something that has a harmful or damaging effect on a person, thing, or situation. It is a formal word often used in academic, legal, medical, and professional contexts. It is frequently followed by the preposition "to."

Examples

• Smoking is detrimental to your health.
• The new policy had a detrimental effect on employee morale.
• A lack of sleep can be detrimental to academic performance.
• The lawyer argued that the evidence was detrimental to his client's case.

Advanced Usage

• "Prove detrimental to": To ultimately cause harm to something.
  • The budget cuts proved detrimental to the quality of the research.
• "Without being detrimental to": Without causing harm to something else.
  • We can increase efficiency without being detrimental to product quality.

Variants and Related Words

• Detriment (noun): Harm or damage.
  • He works long hours to the detriment of his family life.
• Detrimentally (adverb): In a harmful manner.
  • The chemicals affected the wildlife detrimentally.

Synonyms

• Harmful
• Damaging
• Injurious
• Deleterious
• Adverse
• Prejudicial

Antonyms

• Beneficial
• Advantageous
• Helpful
• Favorable

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury
   • damaging to career and reputation
   • the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant

Từ đồng nghĩa

• damaging
• prejudicial
• prejudicious