blaming one's self, hurting one's self, etc
almost everything negative that you do to yourself belongs in this category
Her words were dripping with self-detriment.
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Compound noun. Information that one is better off not knowing or being exposed to.
Bro 1: That chick you're crushing on was enthusiastically promiscuous for a year after she divorced.
Bro 2: That's detrimental information, man.
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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.
1) Something that your instincts warn you away from but which you can deduce as enticing.
2) A sacrifice or risk for an expected or predicted reward.
Plural: "beneficial-detriments".
Adjective: "beneficially-detrimental".
Antonym: "detrimental-benifit"
Exe: 1) brushing your teeth even though it makes your sensitive gums hurt, is a beneficial-detriment.
Exe: 2) It was a benneficial-detriment to lose my wrist that day, because my hand was pinned to the underside of a boulder; if I had avoided any detriment I'd've kept my hand and've died there.
Something which 'just feels right', but becomes regrettable later.
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!