harmfully

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adverb

In a harmful manner.

Opposite
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Meanings

adverbharmfully (comparative more harmfully, superlative most harmfully)

comparative more harmfully · superlative most harmfully

  1. In a harmful manner.

    the examinations of the blood seemed to show that this was due to the arsenic operating harmfully on the white corpuscles.

    1884, Sidney Coupland, “Anæmia and Allied Conditions”, in The Year‐Book of Treatment for 1884, page 84
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    But I am asking us to examine a comedic device that not only degrades women but also reinforces the absolutely incorrect and harmfully transmisogynistic idea that trans women are really just "men in dresses."

    2014 November 4, Morgan Philley, “Dressing down the gender binary”, in The Daily Mississippian, volume 103, number 49, University of Mississippi, page 2

    When a practice harmfully Bold textmoves the goalposts, but does not violate freedom to trade, the ban on "unfair methods of competition" in Section 5 of the FTC Act might be a better fit than the ban on restraints of trade in the Sherman Act.

    2015, Aaron Edlin, Joseph Farrell, “Freedom to Trade and the Competitive Process”, in Roger D. Blair, D. Daniel Sokol, editors, The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics, volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section 13.5 (Bundling and Loyalty Pricing), pages 305–306

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbin a detrimental manner

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Catalan danyosament
  • danyosamentin a harmful manner
Finnish vahingollisesti
  • vahingollisestiin a harmful manner
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APA

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MLA

“harmfully.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/harmfully. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “harmfully,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/harmfully.

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