Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

do more harm than good

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English

Syllables: do -more har-m than -good
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make a situation worse, usually while trying to make it better.

Example Sentences

"Finally, it appears that Pius was asked by some persecuted Jews to avoid an explicit condemnation because it would do more harm than good"
"In other words, they will tend to vote for a bill if they think that the public will perceive it as doing more good than harm, even though it might actually do more harm than good. The public can misperceive the real effects of a bill"
"What it generalizes to is the proposition that where following a law does more harm than good, it should be broken."

Inflected Forms

does more harm than good (present, singular) doing more harm than good (participle, present) did more harm than good (past) done more harm than good (participle, past)

Questions

What does do more harm than good mean?: To make a situation worse, usually while trying to make it better.

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