What are the antonyms for DETRIMENTAL?
- Assisting, favorable, nonpolluting, healthful, nondestructive, kind, serviceable, secure, curative, nonpoisonous, useful, salutary, nonvenomous, palliative, sound, profitable, advantageous, beneficent, noncorrosive, remedial, noninfectious, life-giving, positive, healthy, benignant, good, wholesome, friendly, beneficial, invigorating, nonlethal, salubrious, nice, helpful, nontoxic, Aiding, nonfatal, rejuvenating, propitious.
Synonyms for DETRIMENTAL
- untoward,
- unlucky,
- counteractive,
- inauspicious,
- invalid,
- toxiferous,
- Mephitical,
- unfortunate,
- insanitary,
- slanderous,
- distressful,
- unwholesome,
- Unhandy,
- rigorous,
- murderous,
- unaffirmative,
- Harassing,
- miasmic,
- unpropitious,
- lethal,
- unwelcome,
- Insalutary,
- foul,
- damaging,
- differential,
- Privative,
- calamitous,
- terrible,
- in opposition,
- trying,
- opposing,
- atrocious,
- ill-suited,
- unpromising,
- malign,
- naysaying,
- bad,
- defective,
- attribution,
- deadly,
- nocent,
- hard,
- Extirpative,
- faulty,
- virulent,
- ruinous,
- anti,
- hurtful,
- unworkable,
- revolting,
- woeful,
- corruptive,
- nonfunctional,
- contrary,
- counter,
- risky,
- troublesome,
- dangerous,
- incommodious,
- nefarious,
- erosive,
- septic,
- noxious,
- spiteful,
- disastrous,
- have no use for,
- recusant,
- wrongful,
- baleful,
- unpleasant,
- feller,
- inexpedient,
- Discommodious,
- corroding,
- abominable,
- pernicious,
- inimical,
- wicked,
- life-threatening,
- unsound,
- unprofitable,
- counterproductive,
- corrupting,
- ill-disposed,
- malignant,
- malefic,
- unserviceable,
- allergic to,
- pestilent,
- noisome,
- sinful,
- harmful,
- Wrackful,
- catastrophic,
- tragic,
- prejudicial,
- antagonistic,
- unhealthy,
- study at pernicious,
- disturbing,
- arrant,
- Wreckful,
- monstrous,
- unfavourable,
- corrosive,
- mischief-making,
- ill-behaved,
- wretched,
- unfriendly,
- inadequate,
- cataclysmic,
- violent,
- unusable,
- hazardous,
- unsafe,
- maleficent,
- deleterious,
- unhygienic,
- stressful,
- poisonous,
- down on,
- malevolent,
- black,
- worthless,
- displeasing,
- offensive,
- venenous,
- ominous,
- ineffective,
- help,
- troublous,
- irremediable,
- down side,
- evil,
- destructive,
- unsuitable,
- ill,
- vicious,
- disadvantageous,
- injurious,
- inconvenient,
- dickens,
- grievous,
- antipathetic,
- hideous,
- Nocuous,
- Disserviceable,
- unrewarding,
- Scatheful,
- conflicting,
- impractical,
- counter-productive,
- uncool,
- poor,
- repulsive,
- pestilential,
- not easy,
- disgraceful,
- opposite,
- Miasmatic,
- perilous,
- opposed,
- fell,
- Scathful,
- awful,
- adverse,
- unfavorable,
- negative,
- malicious,
- prejudicious,
- toxic,
- loathsome,
- repugnant,
- distressing,
- veneniferous,
- unenthusiastic,
- unsatisfactory,
- Lethiferous,
- unhealthful,
- toxicant,
- il,
- futile,
- Eradicative,
- wrong,
- fruitless,
- rascally,
- baneful,
- unadvantageous,
- harmful baneful,
- corrupt,
- useless,
- good-for-nothing,
- fatal,
- repellent,
- cancerous,
- vile,
- venomous,
- Venenate,
- internecine,
- burdensome,
- miserable,
- difficult,
- mischievous,
- reprehensible,
- cankerous,
- bad-natured,
- damnable,
- inferior,
- Refusing,
- pathological,
- sinister,
- heinous,
- devastating,
- most opposite,
- hostile,
- insalubrious,
- dissentient,
- inadvisable.
Usage Examples for DETRIMENTAL
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Had the latter, which lay farther up the stream been destroyed, the former never could have passed our battery, nor been of further annoyance to us; whereas, the schooner being burnt, the ship was only removed out of the reach of danger, and posted where she could be infinitely more advantageous to her friends and detrimental to her enemies. - "The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815" by G. R. Gleig
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" Sometimes occasionally," said Philo Gubb, as the ferry turned toward town, " the combination of paper- hanging and deteckative work is detrimental to one or both, as the case may be, but at other occasional times they are worth one hundred dollars." - "Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective" by Ellis Parker Butler
