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det·ri·men·tal
 detrimental
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- pronunciation:
- de
tr
men
tl
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
causing harm, disadvantage, or deterioration.
Skipping breakfast has been shown to be detrimental to performance in school.Emotional stress can be detrimental to one's overall health.- antonyms:
- advantageous, beneficial, benign, noninjurious
- similar words:
- adverse, bad, harmful, inimical, unfavorable
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| related words: |
deleterious, destructive, evil, ill, injurious, noisome, noxious, unhealthy |
adverb + (adj.)detrimental
environmentally, extremely, highly, necessarily, obviously, politically, possibly, potentially, predominantly, seriously, significantly, therefore, ultimately
(adj.)detrimental
+ noun
attribution,
consequence,
economy,
effect,
environment,
health,
impact,
implication,
individual,
influence,
initiative,
interest,
layer,
learning,
maintenance,
morale,
motivation,
outcome,
ozone,
performance,
relation,
reversal,
reward,
society,
species,
stability,
survival,
unity,
welfare,
well-being,
wildlife
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| derivation: |
detrimentally (adv.) |
The word detrimental
contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
  More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, agricultural, ancestral, annual, arboreal, artificial, astral, bacterial, biblical, biographical, brutal, capital, central, ceremonial, chemical, classical, clinical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continental, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, fluvial, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, guttural, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, ineffectual, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, pastoral, personal, philosophical, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, political, potential, quizzical, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, sacrificial, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, territorial, theatrical, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, veridical, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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