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HOME | Definition of hurtful (HURTFUL, Hurtful)


    Hurtful \Hurt"ful\, a.
    Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous;
    occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.

    Syn: Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental;
    disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious;
    unwholesome; destructive. --

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    hurtful
    adj 1: causing hurt; "her hurtful unconsidered words"
    2: harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
    [syn: deleterious, injurious]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    75 Moby Thesaurus words for "hurtful":
    acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, baleful, baneful, biting,
    corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive,
    cramping, cruel, cutting, damaging, deadly, deleterious,
    destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disserviceable,
    distressing, excruciating, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harmful,
    harrowing, harsh, hurting, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent,
    malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous, nasty, noisome,
    noxious, ominous, painful, paroxysmal, pernicious, piercing,
    poignant, poisonous, prejudicial, pungent, racking, scatheful,
    severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spiteful,
    stabbing, stinging, tormenting, torturous, toxic, unkind, venenate,
    veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wounding

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0




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