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detrimentality
detrimentalness
behind
impinge
hurt
injure
hickey
repercussionary
advantage
repercussional
hit the fan
reward
iatrogenesis
gift that keeps on giving
adversely
compensatory
causality
irritate
a blessing and a curse
cause and effect
bego
no good deed ever goes unpunished
dire
affectability
minus
deleterious
negative
reap the whirlwind
efficient
harmfulness
the cure is worse than the disease
do a number on
syllogize
detrimentally
blame
potentiation
take its toll
adversative
poisoned
resultful
inimical
indirect
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side-effecting
maleficent
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noun
- A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
- A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
- An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.
- The person who declines such an offer.
- The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
- The particles themselves.
noun
- The consequence (often, but not always, adverse) of an action or event.
- A sound that follows another, especially a loud noise, such as thunder.
- A canvas curtain or tailboard at the rear of a covered wagon.
- A phenomenon occurring after a similar earlier one; a later manifestation of something.
- A child born after the one that was intended to be the last.
- A symptom of an illness, especially one that appears after the initial onset; an illness or symptom caused by exposure to a substance, an injury, etc.
verb
- To have significant effect, often negative.
- To attack with the teeth.
- To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- To take or keep a firm hold.
- To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- To sting.
- To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- To plagiarize, to imitate.
- To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
noun
- A small meal or snack.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- Something unpleasant.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- aggression
- A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- The act of biting.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- An act of plagiarism.
verb
noun
- The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
- set of copies of a publication printed at one time having the same content, layout, pagination, etc.
- The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.
- The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
- An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad is shown once.
- A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
- An outward appearance.
- A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.
- An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
- The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
verb
verb
- To affect negatively.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
adj
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
pron
adj
adj
noun
- The tendency to increase ones value of or commitment to something when it involves unanticipated negative side effects.
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- A set of circumstances in which one phenomenon (such as a group of people) opposes or undermines another phenomenon that produces or sustains it (for example, peasants deforesting hillsides in order to expand cultivatable land, resulting in flooding and the loss of the same).
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verb
- To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
noun
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- The model number of a device; a device model.
- A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game.
- One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- Attention.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- A characteristic feature.
- A written character or sign.
- A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
noun
- A result of actions, especially if such a result is unwanted or unpleasant.
- That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause.
- A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.
- Chain of causes and effects; consecution.
- Importance with respect to what comes after.
- The power to influence or produce an effect.
- Importance, value, or influence.
verb
verb
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- stop work in order to press demands
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- attain
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- find unexpectedly
- produce by ignition or a blow
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cause to experience suddenly
- drive something violently into a location
- occupy or take on
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- smooth with a strickle
- pierce with force
- hook by a pull on the line
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
noun
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
- a gentle blow
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a conspicuous success
name
- A rule for clinical trials used for determining the rate of adverse side effects when no such side effects present during the course of the trial.
- A rule of thumb in the C++ programming language, stating that any class that defines a destructor, a copy constructor, or a copy assignment operator should define all three of them.
- A rule stating that, if two ratios are equal, then the denominator of the second equals its numerator times the reciprocal of the first ratio: if a/b=c/d then d=(bc)/a.
- A religious tenet stating that the energy a person puts out into the world, positive or negative, will be returned to that person threefold.
- A rule which states that things which come in groups of three are inherently funnier or more effective than things which come in groups of other sizes.
- Specifically, the technique of having a setup in advance, a reminder to keep it fresh in the audience's memory, and then a payoff.
verb
- To suffer consequences.
- To discharge an obligation or debt.
- To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
- To be profitable or worth the effort.
- To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
- To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- To be profitable for.
- To give (something else than money).
- To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
adj
noun
adj
- Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
- Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
- Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
- Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
- Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
noun
- An ugly person or thing.
- Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
- Ugliness.
verb
noun
- having important effects or influence
- a particular point in time
- an indefinitely short time
- at this time
- a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
- the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
noun
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
- A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
- A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
- A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- An instance of incontinence.
- Chance; random chance.
- Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
- An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
- A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
- A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
- An unintended pregnancy.
- Any chance event.
- casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
adj
noun
- A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
- A possible adverse event or outcome.
- A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
- An entity insured by an insurer.
- The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.
- The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
- The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
- A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.
- A financial product (typically an investment).
verb
noun
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
- Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
verb
prep
- As a result or consequence of.
- Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.
- After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to.
- After in time.
- In the past, from the viewpoint of.
- Concealed by (something serving as a facade or disguise).
- After in physical progress or distance.
- In support of.
- Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of.
- At or to the back or far side of.
noun
- In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
- The rear, back-end.
- The buttocks, bottom, butt.
- A one-point score.
- The catcher.
adv
- Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- At or in the rear or back part of something.
- So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.
- So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.
- In a rearward direction.
- Backward in time or order of succession; past.
adj
verb
- cause damage or affect negatively
- be the source of pain
- give trouble or pain to
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- hurt the feelings of
- feel physical pain
- be in pain
adj
- suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
- damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
noun
noun
- An unintended negative outcome or loss in regards to a deal or action.
- A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
- A serif or other ornamentation on type.
- A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.
- A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.
adj
- involving disadvantage or harm
- having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
- less than zero
- designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
- having a negative charge
verb
noun
- a reply of denial
- a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed
adj
- characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
- expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
- not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition
- reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
adj
- causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent)
- expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input
- making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy
- effective, efficacious
phrase
- The medical treatment for an illness produces a worse net result than the illness does (or threatens a non-negligible risk of doing so), especially via adverse effects.
- The solution or proposed solution to a problem produces a worse net result than the problem does (or threatens a non-negligible risk of doing so), especially via unintended consequences.
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