An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
HARMFUL
harmful
(adjective) causing or capable of causing harm; “too much sun is harmful to the skin”; “harmful effects of smoking”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
harmful (comparative harmfuller or more harmful, superlative most harmful)
of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious
Usage notes
• Nouns to which "harmful" is often applied: effect, consequence, impact, influence, emission, chemical, ingredient, substance, gas, agent, additive, drug, radiation, dust, organism, plant, animal, insect, action, act, behavior, component, content, activity, interference, use.
Synonyms
• injurious; see also harmful
Antonyms
• beneficial
• harmless
Source: Wiktionary
Harm"ful, a.
Definition: Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. " Most harmful hazards." Strype. --Harm"ful*ly, adv.
– Harm"ful*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GLASSY
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