Hurtful

  • 1Hurtful — 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;… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2hurtful — index adverse (negative), bitter (reproachful), caustic, dangerous, detrimental, disadvantageous …

    Law dictionary

  • 3hurtful — harmful, mid 15c., from HURT (Cf. hurt) + FUL (Cf. ful). Related: Hurtfully; hurtfulness …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 4hurtful — [adj] injurious, cruel aching, afflictive, bad, cutting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, distressing, evil, harmful, hurting, malicious, mean, mischievous, nasty, nocuous, noxious, ominous,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 5hurtful — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ causing mental pain or distress. DERIVATIVES hurtfully adverb …

    English terms dictionary

  • 6hurtful — [hʉrt′fəl] adj. causing hurt; harmful hurtfully adv. hurtfulness n …

    English World dictionary

  • 7hurtful — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ find sth ▪ I found some of his comments rather hurtful. ADVERB ▪ deeply, very ▪ …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 8hurtful — adjective a) Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury. A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. b) Tending to hurt someones feelings; insulting …

    Wiktionary

  • 9hurtful — [[t]hɜ͟ː(r)tfʊl[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you say that someone s comments or actions are hurtful, you mean that they are unkind and upsetting. Her comments can only be very hurtful to Mrs Green s family. Syn: upsetting …

    English dictionary

  • 10hurtful — hurt|ful [ˈhə:tfəl US ˈhə:rt ] adj making you feel very upset or offended = ↑unkind hurtful remark/comment etc >hurtfully adv >hurtfulness n [U] …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

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