harmfully

Thân thiện

The chemical waste flowed harmfully into the river.

Definition

1. Adverb:
   • In a detrimental manner: In a way that causes or is capable of causing harm, damage, or adverse effects.

Usage

The adverb "harmfully" is used to modify a verb, describing that an action is performed in a manner that results in harm. It indicates a negative, injurious, or damaging quality of an action or influence.

Examples

• The chemical reacted harmfully with the metal, causing it to corrode.
• Some bacteria can act harmfully on the human digestive system.
• The new policy could impact small businesses harmfully.

Advanced Usage

• "to act harmfully upon": To have a damaging effect on something.
  • The medication can act harmfully upon the liver if taken in high doses.
• Used in formal, academic, or technical contexts (e.g., scientific, medical, legal, or policy discussions) to describe detrimental effects precisely.

Variants and Related Words

• Harmful (adjective): Causing or capable of causing harm.
  • Smoking is a harmful habit.
• Harm (noun/verb): Damage or injury / to cause damage or injury.
  • The storm did great harm to the crops. (noun)
  • Pollution can harm the environment. (verb)

Synonyms

• Detrimentally: In a way that causes harm or loss.
• Damagingly: In a manner that inflicts damage.
• Injuriously: In a way that causes physical injury or harm.
• Deleteriously: (Formal) In a harmful or damaging way.

Antonyms

• Harmlessly: In a way that causes no harm.
• Beneficially: In a helpful or advantageous manner.
• Salutarily: (Formal) In a way that produces a beneficial effect.

Related Phrases

• To affect something harmfully: To influence something in a damaging way.
  • The drought affected the harvest harmfully.
• To interact harmfully with: To have a damaging mutual effect with something else.
  • The two cleaning products can interact harmfully with each other, producing toxic fumes.

Học thuật

Adverb

1. in a detrimental manner

Từ đồng nghĩa

• detrimentally
• noxiously