harmful
(adjective) causing or capable of causing harm; “too much sun is harmful to the skin”; “harmful effects of smoking”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
harmful (comparative harmfuller or more harmful, superlative most harmful)
of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious
• 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.
• injurious; see also harmful
• 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
3 May 2025
(adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving; “a desirable job”; “computer with many desirable features”; “a desirable outcome”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
