Synonyms and Antonyms of damaging
causing or capable of causing harm
- the damaging effects of the sun on unprotected skin
adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked
hostile, inimical, unfriendly
contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous
insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening
hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound
nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome
destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous
advantageous, beneficial, useful
favorable, good, propitious
curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome
secure, sound
benignant
noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous
