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Damaging vs Inimical - What's the difference?

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Damaging is a related term of inimical.


As adjectives the difference between damaging and inimical

is that damaging is harmful; injurious; causing damage while inimical is harmful in effect.

As a verb damaging

is .

damaging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Harmful; injurious; causing damage.
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    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging , but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)

    • inimical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Harmful in effect.
    • Suicide is inimical to the health of the participant.
  • Unfriendly, hostile.
    • Her inimical attitude precludes romance.

    Synonyms

    * inimic, inimicable

    Related terms

    * inimically