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say it: HAHRM-fuhl
harmful is an adjective meaning "causing or capable of causing harm". It is pronounced /ˈhɑɹmfəl/ — HAHRM-fuhl. It carries one recorded sense.
causing or capable of causing harm
“too much sun is harmful to the skin”
“harmful effects of smoking”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for harmful come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.