The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word EVIL , but the solution may also be ADVERSE which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Harmful crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EVIL | 18 % | 4 |
| NOISOME | 18 % | 7 |
| NOCENT | 15 % | 6 |
| BAD | 12 % | 3 |
| ILL | 9 % | 3 |
| NOXIOUS | 6 % | 7 |
| DELETERIOUS | 3 % | 11 |
| ADVERSE | 3 % | 7 |
| PERNICIOUS | 3 % | 10 |
| MALEFIC | 3 % | 7 |
| DAMAGING | 3 % | 8 |
| INIMICAL | 3 % | 8 |
| NOCUOUS | 3 % | 7 |
Why may ADVERSE be the right solution?
"Adverse" means harmful or unfavorable. It fits the clue "Harmful" because it is a synonym for causing harm or damage.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Harmful
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- detrimental
- injurious
- damaging
- hurtful
- deleterious
- noxious
- pernicious
- degrading
- denigratory
- denigrative
- ruinous
- abusive
Crossword Answer definitions
EVIL noun- Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
- Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
- A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
- Intending to harm; malevolent.
- Morally corrupt.
- Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
- Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
- Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
- Undesirable; harmful; bad practice
- Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
- Injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
- Badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result EVIL
- Agatha Christie's "___ Under the Sun"
- Beyond bad
- Dark forces
- Doctor opposing Austin Powers
- Like Lucifer
- Like some spirits
- Mean business
- Satanic
- Sinister
- Wicked
More clues leading to the result NOISOME
- Foul-smelling
- Harmful
- Very offensive
- Nauseating
- Stinking
- Smelly
- Stinky (but not necessarily loud, surprisingly)
- Offensive
- Putrid
- Disgusting
More clues leading to the result NOCENT
More clues leading to the result BAD
- Adverse
- Below standard
- Michael Jackson smash
- Not good
- "___ Boys" (1983)
- "___ Moon Rising"
- Quite inadequate
- Rotten egg, e.g.
- Unfavorable
- Incorrect
More clues leading to the result ILL
- "__ Never Smile Again"
- Laid up
- Out of sorts
- Under the weather
- Feeling poorly
- Not healthy
- Not well
- Sick
- Ailing
- Hardly healthy
More clues leading to the result NOXIOUS
More clues leading to the result DELETERIOUS
More clues leading to the result ADVERSE
- Detrimental
- Hostile
- Far from propitious
- Inauspicious
- Unfavorable
- Negative
- Antagonistic
- Bad
- Ill-omened
- Madison Avenue jingle?
More clues leading to the result PERNICIOUS
More clues leading to the result MALEFIC
More clues leading to the result DAMAGING
More clues leading to the result INIMICAL
- Like nemeses
- Harmful
- Antagonistic
- Unfriendly
- Antagonistic.
- Unfavorable.
- Hostile.
- Adverse
- Hostile
- Not sympathetic