Harmful vs Obnoxious - What's the difference?
harmful | obnoxious | Related terms |
of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious
Extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.
(archaic) exposed to harm or injury.
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Harmful is a related term of obnoxious.
As adjectives the difference between harmful and obnoxious
is that harmful is of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious while obnoxious is extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.harmful
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Alternative forms
* harmfull (archaic)Adjective
(en-adj)- 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 alsoAntonyms
* beneficial * harmlessSee also
* harmobnoxious
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Alternative forms
* obnoctious (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.
- Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
- To begin then with his Experiment of the burning Wood, it seems to me to be obnoxious to not a few considerable Exceptions.