different between harmful vs snide

English

Alternative forms

• harmfull (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English harmful, from Old English *hearmful (suggested by hearmfull?? (“harmful; hurtful”)), equivalent to harm +? -ful.

Cognate with German harmvoll, Danish harmfuld, Swedish harmfull.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??mfl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??mfl?/

Adjective

harmful (comparative harmfuller or more harmful, superlative harmfullest or most harmful)

1. of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious

   Wear a hat to protect your skin from harmful sunlight.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "harmful" is often applied: effect, consequence, impact, influence, emission, chemical, ingredient, substance, gas, agent, additive, drug, radiation, dust, organism, plant, animal, insect, action, act, behavior, component, content, activity, interference, use.

Synonyms

• injurious; see also Thesaurus:harmful

Antonyms

• beneficial
• harmless

Translations

See also

• harm

English

Etymology

Probably from a dialectal variant of snithe (“sharp, cutting”). More at snithe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sna?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Adjective

snide (comparative snider, superlative snidest)

1. Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
2. Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.

Translations

References

Noun

snide (countable and uncountable, plural snides)

1. (countable) An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practise; a sharper; a cheat.
2. (uncountable) counterfeit money

Anagrams

• Denis, Sinde, denis, dines, enids, nides, snied