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Damaging vs Harmful - What's the difference?

damaging | harmful |

As adjectives the difference between damaging and harmful

is that damaging is harmful; injurious; causing damage while harmful is of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious.

As a verb damaging

is present participle of lang=en.

damaging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Harmful; injurious; causing damage.
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    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging , but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)

    • harmful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * harmfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious
    • Wear a hat to protect your skin from harmful sunlight.

    Usage notes

    * 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.

    Synonyms

    * injurious; see also

    Antonyms

    * beneficial * harmless

    See also

    * harm