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Word | Detrimental |
Urdu Meaning | مضر, نقصان پھنچانے والا, نقصان دہ, ضرر رساں |
(sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; damaging to career and reputation; the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant / Causing detriment / harmful; damaging / tending to cause harm. / causing damage or injury, | |
Usage | ⇒ Smoking cigarette and chewing tobacco is detrimental to health ⇒ The candidate's acceptance of major financial contributions from a well- known racist ultimately proved detrimental to his campaign, for he lost the backing of many of his early grass roots supporters. ⇒ there were serious concerns that the factory's waste was detrimental to the local environment ⇒ releasing the documents would be detrimental to national security ⇒ smoking is detrimental to your health |
Synonyms | harmful, injurious, deleterious, damaging, destructive, pernicious, bad, hurtful, noxious, prejudicial, baleful, mischievous, adverse, baneful, unhealthy, unwholesome, evil, poisonous, deadly, ill, |
Antonyms | advantageous, beneficial, benign, helpful, profitable, anodyne, curative, favorable, harmless, healing, innocuous, remedial, assisting, auspicious, beneficent, good, healthy, hurtless, innocent, inoffensive, |
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