detrimental
Bad for you
Detrimental means causing harm or damage: Smoking is detrimental to your health, The scandal had a detrimental effect on his career.
The word implies negative consequences rather than immediate destruction—a detrimental influence weakens or undermines over time.
It appears most often with words like effect, impact, or consequences.
Causing loss or injury
- injuriousCausing physical harm
- deleteriousCausing harm or damage
- perniciousGradually and subtly harmful
- destructiveCausing severe harm
ruinous · hurtful · impairing · debilitating · undermining · corrosive · erosive · degrading
Not in your benefit
- disadvantageousCausing harm or hindrance
- negativeOpposite of affirmative
- counterproductiveHindering intended outcome
- prejudicialHarmfully biasing an outcome
inimical · contrary · opposed · hostile · antagonistic · conflicting · incompatible · obstructive
Likely to cause injury
- unsafeLikely to cause harm
- dangerousApt to cause harm
- perilousFraught with danger
- precariousDangerously insecure
threatening · menacing · jeopardizing · compromising · endangering · imperiling · exposure · vulnerability
damaging
Causing loss or injury
- injuriousCausing physical harm
- deleteriousCausing harm or damage
- perniciousGradually and subtly harmful
destructive · ruinous · hurtful · impairing · debilitating · undermining · corrosive · erosive · degrading · deteriorating
unfavorable
Not in your benefit
- disadvantageousCausing harm or hindrance
- negativeOpposite of affirmative
- counterproductiveHindering intended outcome
prejudicial · inimical · contrary · opposed · hostile · antagonistic · conflicting · incompatible · obstructive · hindering
hazardous
Likely to cause injury
precarious · threatening · menacing · jeopardizing · compromising · endangering · imperiling · exposure · vulnerability · liability
- intensitieshigh, low, strong, weak, intense
- self-defeatingself-sabotage, backfire, boomerang effect, own goal
detrimentalbeneficial
Producing good results
helpful · advantageous · salutary · constructive · wholesome