Synonym: damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious. Similar words: experimental, sentimental, mental, experiment, mentally, ornamental, incremental, rudimentary. Meaning: [‚detrɪ'mentl] 
adj. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury.
adj. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury. 
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1. Sugar is positively detrimental to bodybuilding.
2. These chemicals have a detrimental effect/impact on the environment.
3. Smoking is detrimental to your health.
4. The policy will be detrimental to the peace process.
5. The measures had a detrimental effect.
6. This move could be seriously detrimental to the economy.
7. Poor eating habits are detrimental to health.
8. Their decision could be detrimental to the future of the company.
9. Departmental barriers and ivory tower attitudes are detrimental to good results.
10. All of these factors may be detrimental to original interior features.
11. This is obviously having a detrimental effect on textile exports from the region.
12. The application with the particularly detrimental effect on operators' jobs was the biscuit dough mixing automation.
13. Many industrial activities impose external effects, usually detrimental ones, on the wider community.
14. The changes would have a detrimental effect on bus passengers.
15. Long-acting drugs, like many sleeping pills,[Sentencedict.com] are especially detrimental to the elderly.
16. While the inclination to procrastinate is common, one must fully consider the detrimental impact of unnecessary delays.
17. He says if it happens consistently it will have a detrimental effect.
18. Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children.
19. I can not understand this as I can not see any detrimental effect on the carp.
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20. The depopulation and lack of facilities in rural areas indicates to a few that industrial expansion is detrimental to country life.
21. Both of these non-conserved amino-acid substitutions would have highly detrimental effects on the catalytic function of the putative protein-tyrosine kinase.
22. The emphasis is on aromatherapy massage which is one of the finest techniques available for soothing the detrimental effects of stress.
23. One could anticipate far more poisons being put down, and such activities must have a detrimental effect on the environment.
24. He appeared to think too much acclaim might be detrimental as well as premature.
25. Whether your relationships are diminished in number or quality, the effect is detrimental to your health.
26. There remain, at the same time, two unsolved problems which have proved detrimental to the establishment of work schemes.
27. But a climate of mutual exclusion and distrust is detrimental to both and is increasingly unrealistic in an information-based society.
28. At the same time, medical and social science research began to indicate that retirement itself had detrimental effects.
29. In this part I find that land reform is at least not detrimental to production.
30. Yesterday, it became apparent that those involved in greyhound racing feared that it would have a detrimental effect on their business.
More similar words: experimental, sentimental, mental, experiment, mentally, ornamental, incremental, rudimentary, fundamental, developmental, environmental, environmental protection, entailment, sentiment, dental, rental, parental, detachment, accidental, occidental, raiment, regiment, momentary, commentary, condiment, compliment, elementary, impediment, embodiment, containment.