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damaging

English

Etymology

damage +? -ing

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?dæm?d???/

Verb

damaging

  1. present participle of damage

Adjective

damaging (comparative more damaging, superlative most damaging)

  1. Harmful; injurious; causing damage.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:harmful

Antonyms

  • beneficial (causing benefit)
  • undamaging (causing no damage)

Translations

Noun

damaging (plural damagings)

  1. An act of causing damage.
    • 1855, Charles Dickens, Household Words
      That immortal creature had gone over the proofs with great pains — had of course taken out the stiflings — hard-plungings, lungeings, and other convulsions — and had also taken out her weakenings and damagings of her own effects.

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unwholesome

English

Etymology

From Middle English unholsom; equivalent to un- +? wholesome.

Adjective

unwholesome (comparative more unwholesome, superlative most unwholesome)

  1. Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful.
  2. Not sound; tainted; defective.
  3. Indicating unsound health; characteristic of or suggesting an unsound condition, physical or mental; repulsive; offensive.

Antonyms

  • wholesome

Derived terms

  • unwholesomely
  • unwholesomeness

Translations

References

  • unwholesome in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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