Hyphenation of harmful

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word harmful? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

harm-ful

Definitions of harmful:

1.	Causing or capable of causing harm Too much sun is harmful to the skin Harmful effects of smoking

Synonyms of harmful:

adj	noxious, baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent, corrupting, degrading, vesicatory, vesicant, toxic, unwholesome
adj	dangerous, unsafe
adj	harmful, abusive, bad, bruising, calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous, catastrophic, ruinous, counterproductive, damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious, ill, insidious, pernicious, subtle, mischievous, nocent, stabbing, traumatic, wounding, deleterious, hurtful, injurious, destructive, disadvantageous, malign, noxious, offensive, painful, toxic, unwholesome
adj	disadvantageous, minus, negative, inexpedient, inopportune
adj	adverse, inauspicious, untoward, unfavorable, unfavourable
adj	evil, injurious, malign

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.