Meaning of HURTFUL
| Pronunciation: | | 'hurtful
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- [adj] harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
- [adj] causing hurt; "her hurtful unconsidered words"
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| | Synonyms: | | deleterious, harmful, injurious, unkind |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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. -- {Hurt"ful*ly}, adv. --
{Hurt"ful*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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