Detrimental
Detrimental is an adjective that means harmful or tending to cause harm. It can also be used to mean prejudicial, disadvantageous or counterproductive.
Detrimental by AKACroatalin August 1, 2015
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Detrimental
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detrimental by ej December 6, 2004
Detrimental Information
Bro 1: That chick you're crushing on was enthusiastically promiscuous for a year after she divorced.
Bro 2: That's detrimental information, man.
Bro 2: That's detrimental information, man.
Detrimental Information by Bro Ally September 3, 2013
detrimental-benefit
Something which 'just feels right', but becomes regrettable later.
Plural: detrimental-benefits
Adjective: detrimentally-beneficial
Antonym: beneficial-detriment
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!
detrimental-benefit by IAmPseudonyMeRoar!!! December 8, 2018
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.
detrimental-dumbdumb by Tysty7 June 12, 2019
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.
friends with detriments by aegiswings December 16, 2008
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