detrimentally
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7.2
- adverb
- /ˌdɛtrɪˈmɛntəli/
:
detrimentalmente
- Recent studies show that climate change will detrimentally affect agricultural production worldwide.
- detrimentally affect
Examples
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Ignoring the warning signs can detrimentally impact your health in the long run.
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This causes disruption of all kinds, perhaps most detrimentally to children's schooling.
Blog text (28) -
Failure to uphold these established standards may detrimentally impact physicians' practices.
Academic text (2014) -
The situation in Tartu also highlights how Western environmental strategies can, in certain cases, detrimentally affect other nations' environments.
Academic text (1996) -
The Forest Service concluded that the off-site cumulative impacts of private development could affect the environment significantly and detrimentally.
Academic text (1990) -
Too often, organizations compete for funds and the activities that they will address, thus blocking each other's work and detrimentally impacting the persons they have signed on to assist.
Academic text (2011) -
The entire economic infrastructure has been destroyed, political institutions no longer exist, but perhaps most detrimentally, the social fabric of Somali society has been torn apart.
Academic text (1993) -
Cognitive evaluation theory suggests that an individual's intrinsic motivation would be most detrimentally affected upon receipt of tangible, anticipated rewards.
Academic text (2004) -
Excessive screen time can detrimentally influence children's attention spans.
Synonyms
285
1.0
In a way that makes people think less of someone
51
3.3
In a way that causes harm or makes something worse
24
4.9
In a way that causes harm
6
5.6
In a way that causes great harm or failure
3
4.2
In a way that causes harm or damage
3
6.7
In a way that causes great harm or damage
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4.3
In a way that causes damage or hurts others
1
4.4
In a way that causes harm or bad results
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9.0
In a way that causes harm or damage
1
8.9
In a way that causes harm slowly without being noticed
In a way that causes harm to someone or something
In a way that makes things worse for someone
A harmful way that hurts people, animals, or plants
In a way that causes great harm
Antonyms
How Harmful
Surface Forms
Morphology
detrimentally = detrimental (transparent) = detriment + al + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'detrimental', which itself is derived from the noun 'detriment', so the meaning 'in a harmful way' follows directly.
Etymology
Detrimentally comes from detriment, made of Latin parts de- ('away') and -triment- which meant 'to rub' or 'wear away', so at first it meant a loss or damage. So, detrimentally means 'in a harmful way' or 'causing damage'.