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harmfully

harmfully

1 4.3
In a way that causes damage or hurts others
  • adverb
  • /ˈhɑrmfəli/
translation icon : de manera perjudicial
  • Scholars have detailed how the state disproportionately and harmfully targets, regulates, and intrudes in families of color.

You need to alter your perceptions of the world so that you come to apprehend things in such a way that they don't influence you harmfully.

Examples

  • Alcohol may interact harmfully with certain medications, causing serious side effects.

  • It also identifies how the state disproportionately and harmfully intervenes in families of color in contrast to the state's refusal to respond when domestic abusers abduct their children, an act primarily committed by white men.

    Academic text (2017)
  • What you do on your property may harmfully affect other people and theirs. When can coercion be used to stop people from doing such things?

    Blog text (13)
  • In contrast, both lose when power inequities are not acknowledged or are used harmfully.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Difficult as it may seem, the people of the region must detach their minds from what binds them negatively and harmfully to their past.

    Academic text (1995)
  • By redefining the negative definitions that so harmfully label these students and their mothers, the current educational outcomes for millions of children of color will likely change.

    Academic text (2012)
  • If you're going to be able to make health care work better, you've got to be able to make that system work better for people, more efficiently and less wastefully, less harmfully, and with much better teamwork.

    Blog text (22)
  • Using pesticides harmfully can damage not only crops but also the surrounding ecosystem.

  • Neglecting safety protocols at work can affect employees harmfully and lead to accidents.

Synonyms

badly
vsharmfully
285 1.0

In a way that makes people think less of someone

is specifically about producing harmful or detrimental outcomes
negatively
vsharmfully
51 3.3

In a way that causes harm or makes something worse

is more about causing clear harm rather than general badness
adversely
vsharmfully
24 4.9

In a way that causes harm

is the general term for causing negative or bad results
maliciously
vsharmfully
10 7.1

In a way that wants to hurt someone or cause trouble

describes causing harm without implying deliberate ill will
disastrously
vsharmfully
6 5.6

In a way that causes great harm or failure

refers to causing harm in general rather than huge disasters
destructively
vsharmfully
3 4.2

In a way that causes harm or damage

is broader and includes other nonphysical harmful ways
devastatingly
vsharmfully
3 6.7

In a way that causes great harm or damage

is about causing harm generally, not necessarily extremely strong effects
unhealthily
vsharmfully
1 3.8

In a way that harms your body or mind

is the wider adverb for causing harm beyond health issues
detrimentally
vsharmfully
1 7.2

In a way that harms people or things

is the broader, more neutral way to describe causing harm
toxically
vsharmfully
1 7.0

In a harmful or poisonous way

is broader and not limited to chemical or toxic causes
deleteriously
vsharmfully
  • Formal
1 9.0

In a way that causes harm or damage

is the everyday adverb for causing harm or negative effect
damagingly
vsharmfully
1 4.4

In a way that causes harm or bad results

covers harming more generally, not only physical destruction
perniciously
vsharmfully
  • Formal
1 8.9

In a way that causes harm slowly without being noticed

is the common adverb for causing harm without implying slowness
poisonously
vsharmfully
1 7.3

To speak or act in a very hurtful and angry way

is neutral about intent and focuses on causing harm
hurtfully
vsharmfully
1 4.1

In a way that makes someone feel sad or in pain

is not limited to emotional pain and covers all harm types
injuriously
vsharmfully
7.6

In a way that causes harm to someone or something

describes causing harm without focusing on bodily injury specifically
disadvantageously
vsharmfully
7.4

In a way that makes things worse for someone

is the wider adverb for causing harm beyond mere loss
noxiously
vsharmfully
9.0

A harmful way that hurts people, animals, or plants

is the neutral expression for causing harm in general
banefully
vsharmfully
  • Formal
9.9

In a way that causes great harm

describes causing harm without implying extreme or long term ruin
malignly
vsharmfully
9.5

In a mean and harmful way

is neutral about intent and only denotes causing harm

Antonyms

8 2.3

In a way that does not hurt people or things

1 4.1

In a way that helps and makes things better

How Harmful

lethally
2 6.8
dangerously
97 3.2
harmfully
1 4.3
harmlessly
8 2.3

Surface Forms

harmfully positive

Morphology

harmfully = harmful (transparent) = harm + ful + ly

The adverb is regularly formed from the adjective 'harmful' with '-ly', and its meaning is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

Harmfully comes from harm, which means 'damage', plus -ful ('full of') and -ly (which makes an adverb). So harmfully means doing something 'in a way that causes harm'.