Beneficial/Harmful Flashcards
Advantageous, advantageously.
Producing advantage.
“The scheme is advantageous to your company.”
Profitable, profitability, profitably.
Beneficial, useful; of a business: yielding profit.
“I stopped it there, it didn’t look like being a very profitable discussion.”
Rewarding, rewardingly.
Providing satisfaction, gratifying.
“Skiing can be hugely rewarding.”
“I had such a rewarding and fulfilling experience and loved the children.”
Salubrious, salubrity, salubriously.
Conducive to health, healthy.
“For Maduraites, the rain last week was timely indeed, bringing an interlude of salubrious weather condition.”
Salutary.
Especially with reference to something unwelcome or unpleasant: beneficial; health-giving.
“It failed to draw salutary lessons from Britain’s loss of its colonies.”
“The salutary Atlantic air.”
Wholesome, wholesomeness, wholesomely.
Conducive to physical or moral well-being; characteristic of health or wellbeing, especially in appearance.
“Buying wholesome, healthy ingredients and cooking them at home is so simple.”
“The emphasis is on good, wholesome fun, and relaxation.”
Baleful, balefulness, balefully.
Hurtful, menacing.
“These are the baleful effects of global warming.”
“Bill shot a baleful glance in her direction.”
Baneful, bane.
Noun: A cause of great distress or annoyance; something, especially poison, which causes death.
Adjective: Destructive, poisonous, or fatal.
“The telephone was the bane of my life.”
“In many places in Britain, it was customary to light huge bonfires in the fields to ward off baneful influences.”
Deleterious, deleteriously.
Harmful, injurious.
“Divorce is assumed to have deleterious effects on children.”
Inimical, inimically.
Tending to obstruct or harm; unfriendly, hostile.
“The policy was inimical to Britain’s real interests.”
“An inimical alien power.”
Injurious to something, injuriousness, injuriously.
Causing or likely to cause damage or harm.
“A publication may be age restricted if it is likely to be injurious to the public good.”
“Food which is injurious to health.”
Insidious, insidiousness.
Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects.
“Sexual harassment is a serious and insidious problem.”
Minatory.
Threatening or menacing.
“The Soviet Union undermined its own objectives by minatory behavior.”
“‘Its story is about a boy and a minatory dog.”
Perfidious, perfidiousness, perfidiously.
Deceitful and untrustworthy.
“A perfidious lover.”
“She is indifferent, negligent, unfeeling, untrustworthy, and perfidious.”
Pernicious, perniciously, perniciousness.
Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
“The pernicious influences of the mass media.”
“The pernicious effects of drugs.”
