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harmful meaning

EN[ˈhɑɹmfl̩]
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WHarmful
  • Harmful is a rock band from Frankfurt, Germany,
  • 2007 saw the release of Harmful's seventh album, aptly titled 7, produced by Billy Gould,
  • In the past, Harmful has toured with bands like Slayer, Machine Head, Clutch, Paradise Lost, Therapy?
  • AdjectiveCOMharmfullerCOMmore harmfulSUPharmfullestSUPmost harmfulSUF-ful
    1. of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious.
      1. Wear a hat to protect your skin from harmful sunlight.
  • More Examples
    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • Factors known to encourage the growth of harmful bacteria inside cooling systems include the stagnation of the water.
      • The underprocessed food still contained harmful bacteria.
      • For soniferous otophysans, decreased auditory sensitivity is particularly harmful because it may reduce the capacity to detect acoustic signals from conspecifics.

Meaning of harmful for the defined word.

Grammatically, this word "harmful" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe.
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Adjectives
      • Morphemes
        • Suffixes
          • Words by suffix
            • Words suffixed with -ful
      Difficultness: Level 4
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      Definiteness: Level 3
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