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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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Therefore the area of the roadway in question had been subject to the detrimental effects of frost action.
The application was initially refused on the grounds that it was detrimental to the area.
His only real fault was that his work ethic was so high and he worked so hard, that it could eventually have been detrimental.
Councillors ruled last year that they were detrimental to visual amenity and had to come down.
The blinking of fluorescent lighting has done something detrimental to their brain chemistry.
Can a mere focus on theory and skill acquisition be detrimental to the effectiveness of family therapists?

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