Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Causing harm or destruction
adj
(linguistics) Expressing adverse effect.
adj
Suffering from an affliction, or suffering from pain, distress or disability.
n
One who is afflicted by something; a sufferer.
adj
Characterised or marked by ailing; difficult, painful, or unpleasant
n
(psychology, countable) An unpleasant stimulus intended to induce a change in behaviour.
adj
Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
adj
Portending evil; ominous.
adj
Harmful, injurious.
adv
In a calamitous manner.
n
(obsolete) Something damaging or annoying; an inconvenience, an evil.
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Causing serious injuries, damage, or harm; damaging.
adj
(obsolete) Hurtful; pernicious.
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(rare) Characterised by or causing damage; harmful
adj
(obsolete) damaging, hurtful, injurious
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Harmful; injurious; causing damage.
adj
Causing loss; injurious.
n
(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
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(colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
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Characterised or marked by danger; dangerous
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(obsolete) Degenerate; base.
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Harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way.
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(obsolete) Destructive, poisonous, deleterious.
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(now proscribed) Alternative form of deleterious [Harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way.]
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Causing destruction; damaging.
adj
Causing damage or harm.
adj
(rare) Of or pertaining to devastations.
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devastating; highly destructive
adv
So as to cause disfigurement.
n
The state or condition of being disgusted.
adv
In a downtrodden manner.
n
embitterment
n
Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation.
adj
Harmful, destructive, deadly, pernicious.
adj
Corrupt; degenerate.
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of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious
adj
Full of hazard; dangerous; risky.
adj
Harmful; of or relating to that which hinders.
adj
Tending to impair or damage; injurious; occasioning loss or injury.
adj
Mischievous; harmful; dangerous.
adj
Of, pertaining to or causing infliction
adj
Harmful in effect.
adj
Causing harm to one's reputation; invidious, defamatory, libelous, slanderous.
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Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
adj
(archaic) Causing loss or damage; harmful.
n
(only in set phrases) illness, affliction.
n
(now rare) Homesickness.
n
A moral or mental defect or disorder.
adj
(archaic) injurious, damaging
adj
(archaic) unsafe, perilous
n
(rare) Alternative spelling of med mal [Malpractice by a medical practitioner.]
adj
(chiefly UK) Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.).
adj
(archaic) Hurtful, injurious.
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Likely to cause harm or damage.
adj
(literary) Hurtful or noxious to health; unwholesome, insalubrious.
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Harmful; injurious.
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Characterised or marked by peril; perilous
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Causing much harm in a subtle way.
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(archaic) Harmful to morals or public order.
adj
That is a plague.
adj
(figuratively) Having a strongly negative effect; harmful.
adj
(figuratively) Negative, harmful.
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Causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious.
adj
(figuratively, rare) Dangerous and disgusting, particularly of people or ideas.
adj
(zoology) Defensive or repulsive, particularly as applied to glands of certain invertebrates, with which they produce poisonous or repugnant secretions when under threat.
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Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous
adj
(colloquial) Causing a high degree of pain or humiliation.
adj
(archaic) Causing harm or mischief; destructive, injurious.
adv
(obsolete outside dialects) Certainly.
n
(obsolete) soreness
n
Obsolete form of sorance. [(obsolete) soreness]
adj
Demeaning, boring, disheartening.
adj
Causing erosion of moral fortitude or that eliminates hope or motivation
v
(transitive) to have a particular disease or condition
adj
Very destructive; causing great destruction.
n
An illness in Latin American cultures, a condition of fear and chronic somatic suffering stemming from one's own or others' emotional trauma.
adj
(rare, dialectal or archaic) Characterised or marked by thwarting; contrary; adversative
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(obsolete) Injurious; tortious.
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(figuratively) Severely negative or harmful.
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Inimical to the vitality of a city.
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(rare) Vengeful.
adj
(medicine) Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.

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