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Detrimental

Detrimental is an adjective that means harmful or tending to cause harm. It can also be used to mean prejudicial, disadvantageous or counterproductive.
Most people realise that smoking is detrimental to your health.
by AKACroatalin August 1, 2015
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Detrimental

of much or great significance or consequence
a detrimental event in world history
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detrimental

i group or gang of 5-10 people usually killing anything in thier path.
example TEAM3D vs cal-o
by ej December 6, 2004
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Detrimental Information

Compound noun. Information that one is better off not knowing or being exposed to.
Bro 1: That chick you're crushing on was enthusiastically promiscuous for a year after she divorced.

Bro 2: That's detrimental information, man.
by Bro Ally September 3, 2013
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detrimental-benefit

Something which 'just feels right', but becomes regrettable later.

Plural: detrimental-benefits

Adjective: detrimentally-beneficial
Antonym: beneficial-detriment
Eating that whole cake was a detrimental-benefit, because even though it was tasty, I'm fat now, and my career is as a model (😱) so I could lose my job!
by IAmPseudonyMeRoar!!! December 8, 2018
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detrimental-dumbdumb

A person you work with who’s capacity for wisdom is so lacking that he or she costs the business more than the product of her work.
To get things done efficiently, avoid detrimental-dumbdumb as they make a mess of efficient work flow by taking conversations off into tangents, making irresponsible claims that halt projects until extra work is performed to prove them false, or forcing bottleneck approval processes.
by Tysty7 June 12, 2019
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friends with detriments

The opposite of friends with benefits. A close friend who relies on you emotionally but there is no physical intimacy Involved. See also: HMNR.
I've known Leila for three years. She calls me up to talk whenever she has a fight with one of the losers she happens to be seeing. I like her a lot but we are totally just friends with detriments.
by aegiswings December 16, 2008
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