All damaging synonyms
dam·ag·ing
D d adj damaging
- harmful — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- prejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- ruinous — bringing or tending to bring ruin; destructive; disastrous: a ruinous war.
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- injurious — harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
- bad — If you say that it is bad that something happens, you mean it is unacceptable, unfortunate, or wrong.
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
- mischievous — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- nocuous — likely to cause damage or injury; harmful; noxious.
- nocent — harmful; injurious.
adjective damaging
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- hurtful — causing hurt or injury; injurious; harmful.