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harmfulmeaning

adjective·A2·7 letters

causing damage or injury

Example sentence

Smoking is harmful to your lungs.

What "harmful" looks like in a lesson

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Give me a sentence with "harmful".

Smoking is harmful to your lungs.

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That works. Now tell me where you last heard "harmful".

"harmful" in real videos

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All 7-letter English words

Other A2 words

  • abilitythe power or skill to do something
  • abroadin or to a foreign country
  • acceptto agree to take or receive something
  • acceptablegood enough, allowed
  • accidentan unplanned event that causes harm
  • accounta record of money or an online profile
  • achieveto succeed in doing something
  • acrossfrom one side to the other
  • acta single action or deed
  • actuallyused to say what is really true
  • additionsomething added, or adding numbers
  • additionalextra, more than the usual amount

Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.

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