damaging

The word “damaging” has 3 syllables: dam-a-ging

It's pronounced as /ˈdæmɪdʒɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for damaging?

In the thesaurus, “damaging” has 144 synonyms and 63 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for damaging along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for damaging

abusing
adverse
afflicting
aggrieving
annihilating
bad
baleful
baneful
banging up
bashing
battering
blemishing
blighting
bloodying
blowing out
botching
breaking
bruising
clobbering
compromising
contagious
contusing
crabbing
creasing
crippling
crushing
cutting
dangerous
dashing
deadly
decimating
defacing
deleterious
demolishing
denting
desolating
destroying
destructive
deteriorating
detrimental
devastating
dinging
dinting
disabling
disadvantageous
disfiguring
doing in
endamaging
enervating
enfeebling
eroding
evil
fatal
flawing
gashing
goring
grazing
hamstringing
harmful
harming
hazardous
hostile
hurtful
hurting
ill
impairing
imperiling
imperilling
infectious
infective
inimical
injuring
injurious
insidious
jeopardizing
killer
lacerating
laming
laying up
lethal
maiming
malignant
maltreating
mangling
marring
menacing
mischievous
mutilating
nasty
nicking
nocent
nocuous
noisome
noxious
ominous
parlous
perilous
pernicious
pestiferous
pestilent
pestilential
poisonous
prejudicial
pulverizing
queering
razing
risky
ruining
ruinous
scalding
scarring
scathing
scourging
scouring
scraping
shattering
sinister
smashing
spoiling
straining
tarnishing
tearing
tearing down
threatening
tormenting
torturing
totaling
totalling
undermining
unfriendly
unhealthful
unhealthy
unsafe
unsound
unwholesome
venomous
vitiating
washing out
wasting
weakening
wicked
wiping out
wounding
wrecking

Antonyms for damaging

advantageous
ameliorating
anodyne
assisting
beneficial
benign
benignant
bettering
curative
curing
doctoring
editing
enhancing
enriching
favorable
fixing
good
harmless
healing
healthful
healthy
helpful
helping
hurtless
improving
innocent
innocuous
inoffensive
meliorating
mending
noncorrosive
nondestructive
nonfatal
noninfectious
nonlethal
nonpoisonous
nonpolluting
nontoxic
nonvenomous
palliative
patching
perfecting
propitious
rebuilding
reconditioning
reconstructing
rectifying
refining
rehabilitating
remedial
remedying
remodeling
renovating
repairing
revamping
revising
safe
salubrious
salutary
secure
sound
useful
wholesome

Meanings of damaging

verb
1. To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
2. To undergo damage.
noun
1. An act of causing damage.
adjective
1. Harmful; injurious; causing damage.

Example Sentences

The hailstorm had a damaging impact on the fragile crops.
Reckless driving can result in severe and damaging accidents.
The investigative report highlighted the damaging effects of pollution on the ecosystem.
Harsh criticism can be emotionally damaging to one's self-esteem.
The company faced a public relations crisis due to the damaging revelations in the news.

On this page you'll find 207 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to damaging, such as: abusing, advantageous, adverse, afflicting, aggrieving, ameliorating, annihilating.

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