From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. causing harm or injury; as, damaging to career and reputation.
Syn: detrimental, detrimental to(predicate), prejudicial, prejudicious. [WordNet 1.5]
2. designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Damage \Dam"age\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Damaged} (d[a^]m"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Damaging} (d[a^]m"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See {Damage}, noun] To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship. --Clarendon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: (sometimes followed by 'to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant" [syn: {detrimental}, {prejudicial}, {prejudicious}]
2: designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism" [syn: {negative}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "damaging": bad, baleful, baneful, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, eroding, erosive, evil, harmful, hurtful, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, noisome, noxious, ominous, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, scatheful, toxic, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent
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