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What does detrimental mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word detrimental? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Causing damage or harm.
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Constantly rubbishing residential childcare is enormously detrimental to the young people and staff who live and work in them.
They are using falsehoods to justify their potentially detrimental activities.
Can a mere focus on theory and skill acquisition be detrimental to the effectiveness of family therapists?
These types of communities could avoid the detrimental impacts of urban sprawl, including aggravation of the region's air quality problems.
His only real fault was that his work ethic was so high and he worked so hard, that it could eventually have been detrimental.
The application was initially refused on the grounds that it was detrimental to the area.

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