Harmful vs Unfriendly - What's the difference?
harmful | unfriendly | Related terms |
of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious
not friendly; hostile; mean
unfavourable
An enemy.
* 2005 , Ted Dekker, Thunder of Heaven (page 217)
* 2008 , Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity (page 44)
Harmful is a related term of unfriendly.
As adjectives the difference between harmful and unfriendly
is that harmful is of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious while unfriendly is not friendly; hostile; mean.As a noun unfriendly is
an enemy.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
* harmunfriendly
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Adjective
(en-adj)Antonyms
* friendlyDerived terms
* user-unfriendlyNoun
(unfriendlies)- Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.
- You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).