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# harmfully

«harmfully» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a way that causes harm or damage** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (harmfully)

### meaning for a pupil

In a way that causes harm or damage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harmfully/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health lessons: chemicals or habits that act harmfully on the body or environment. In formal writing: «substances that may act harmfully».

### examples

- Some chemicals act harmfully on plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harmfully/#x1)
- Too much sun can affect your skin harmfully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harmfully/#x2)
- Plastic waste harmfully affects sea life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harmfully/#x3)
- He behaved harmfully towards others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harmfully/#x4)
- Smoke harmfully affects your lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harmfully/#x5)
- Litter harmfully changes the habitat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harmfully/#x6)

### note

From harmful + ly. Opposite: harmlessly. Rare in speech; people usually say «is harmful to».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «harmfully» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harmfully/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.