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DETRIMENTAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(sometimes followed by 'to') causing harm or injury
Example:
the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant
Synonyms:
damaging; detrimental; prejudicial; prejudicious
Classified under:
Similar:
harmful (causing or capable of causing harm)
Derivation:
detriment (a damage or loss)
Context examples:
It makes physical and social activities difficult, creates work hardships, and may result in detrimental emotional conditions.
(Study finds link between long-term exposure to air pollution and emphysema, National Institutes of Health)
Western-style diets high in saturated fat and sugar have been consistently shown to have detrimental effects on the brain and cognitive function, and can rapidly alter the composition and metabolic activity of microbes in the gut, the researchers say.
(Probiotics May Not Always Be A Silver Bullet for Better Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I believe you will accept the post I offer you, said he, and hold it for a while: not permanently, though: any more than I could permanently keep the narrow and narrowing—the tranquil, hidden office of English country incumbent; for in your nature is an alloy as detrimental to repose as that in mine, though of a different kind.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The control group received no arsenic in its drinking water, while the two experimental groups received either the Environmental Protection Agency standard of 10 parts per billion of arsenic or 42.5 parts per million of arsenic, a level known to have detrimental effects in mice.
(Low-level arsenic exposure before birth associated with early puberty and obesity in female mice, NIH)
We now know that growth, as well as gene expression in the placenta is affected in older mothers in a manner that partially depends on sex: changes in the placentas of male fetuses are generally detrimental.
(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)
Neither of these effects was immediately detrimental for valve cells, but the trapping made it more likely for oxygen to react with LDL molecules, and the accumulation of oxidized LDL appeared to be a bottleneck event for a multi-stage process toward valve cell damage.
(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
We found very significant effect of detrimental cognitive function among those students that didn't have air-conditioning during this heat wave period, said lead author Jose Guillermo Cedeno Laurent of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)
