detrimental

/ˌdɛtɹɪˈmɛntəl/

adj 1noun 1

Collocations

(adj.)

VERBS

be, prove, seem | become

ADV

extremely, highly, seriously, very

positively

Lack of sleep is positively detrimental to your ability to concentrate at work.

rather

PREP

Skipping breakfast can be detrimental to your ability to concentrate at school.

Definitions

adj

Causing damage or harm.

Smoking tobacco can be detrimental to your health.

"The fact is," continued he, "Lady Anne fears that my visits here may prove detrimental to what she considers your best interests. I thought myself an old, safe friend; but, as that cannot be explained to every body, she fears that I may keep off other and more eligible lovers."

noun

Anything harmful.

The definition of a parasite is a microbe that lives in you or on you to its benefit and to your detriment. In other words, the detrimentals suck the life out of you.

I'm afraid it may be the detrimentals, the poets, and æsthetes, and impressionist painters, who will rave about her.

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Synonyms

adjective — (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

damaging
prejudicial
prejudicious

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Smoking tobacco can be detrimental to your health.

Wiktionary

It agrees that redundant services should not be continued but is not unmindful of the fact that too much retrenchment of rail services now may ultimately prove detrimental to the economy of the countr

Wiktionary

The definition of a parasite is a microbe that lives in you or on you to its benefit and to your detriment. In other words, the detrimentals suck the life out of you.

Wiktionary

I'm afraid it may be the detrimentals, the poets, and æsthetes, and impressionist painters, who will rave about her.

Wiktionary

Mathematics is not detrimental to the appetite.

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