Synonyms for prejudicial
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Harmful — causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious
harmful, detrimental, damaging, injurious, hurtful, deleterious, bad, inimical, pernicious, mischievous, disadvantageous, noxious, noisome formal, baneful, baleful, malevolent, malefic, prejudicious rare
Other
prejudiciary dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious.
Related words
- Other spellings
- prejudical
Example sentences
- harmful There's no denying the harmful effects of smoking.
- damaging Tom didn't even apologize for damaging that thing.
- detrimental It's not detrimental, but not beneficial either.
- injurious The argument that smoking is injurious has become accepted.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| prejudicial | falling | |
| harmful | steady | |
| damaging | steady | |
| detrimental | steady | |
| injurious | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1
- 7 letters
- harmful2, hurtful2, noxious2, baleful2, malefic, noisome, baneful
- 8 letters
- damaging3, inimical4
- 9 letters
- injurious4
- 10 letters
- pernicious3, malevolent4
- 11 letters
- detrimental4, mischievous3, deleterious5
- 12 letters
- prejudicious, prejudiciary
- 15 letters
- disadvantageous5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (harmful2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- préjudiciable
- Español
- perjudicial