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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Detrimental \Det'ri*men"tal\, adjective Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful.
Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. --Addison.
Syn: Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
detrimental
adjective: (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: {damaging}, {prejudicial}, {prejudicious}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "detrimental": adverse, antagonistic, bad, baleful, baneful, conflicting, contrary, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counter, counteractive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, deleterious, destructive, difficult, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, evil, hard, harmful, hostile, hurtful, ill, in opposition, inimical, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, miserable, negative, noisome, not easy, noxious, ominous, opposed, opposing, opposite, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, rigorous, scatheful, sinister, stressful, toxic, troublesome, troublous, trying, unadvantageous, unfavorable, unprofitable, unrewarding, untoward, useless, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, worthless, wretched
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