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Hurtful synonyms

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harmful
Causing or capable of causing harm; injurious.
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  1. Causing or capable of causing harm; injurious.
  2. Causing or able to cause harm; hurtful
aching
Full of painful yearning or sorrow:
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  1. Full of painful yearning or sorrow:
  2. Dully painful.
  3. That aches; continuously painful. See ache
injurious
Offensive or insulting; hurtful:
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  1. Offensive or insulting; hurtful:
  2. Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful:
  3. Injuring or likely to cause injury; harmful
bad
Vulgar or obscene:
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  1. Vulgar or obscene:
  2. Full of or exhibiting faults or errors:
  3. Being in poor condition; diseased:
aching
That aches; continuously painful. See ache
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  1. That aches; continuously painful. See ache
  2. Full of painful yearning or sorrow:
  3. Dully painful.
achy
Experiencing aches.
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  1. Experiencing aches.
  2. Having an ache, or dull, steady pain
  3. Suffering from aches, sore.
afflictive
That causes physical or mental pain
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  1. That causes physical or mental pain
  2. Causing pain or misery
painful
Causing mental anguish or suffering:
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  1. Causing mental anguish or suffering:
  2. Causing pain; hurting; distressing
  3. Full of or giving pain:
smarting
Painful, sore.
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  1. Painful, sore.
  2. (Figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
sore
Causing sadness, grief, misery, or distress
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  1. Causing sadness, grief, misery, or distress
  2. Causing embarrassment or irritation:
  3. Feeling physical pain; hurting:
bad
Full of or exhibiting faults or errors:
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  1. Full of or exhibiting faults or errors:
  2. Immoral or evil.
  3. Being in poor condition; diseased:
deleterious
Harmful to health or well-being; injurious
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  1. Harmful to health or well-being; injurious
  2. Having a harmful effect; injurious:
  3. Harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way (as for example deleterious effects, deleterious to health).
detrimental
Causing damage or harm; injurious.
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  1. Causing damage or harm; injurious.
  2. Causing detriment; harmful
evil
Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous:
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  1. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous:
  2. Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous:
  3. Morally bad or wrong; wicked:
harmful
Causing or able to cause harm; hurtful
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  1. Causing or able to cause harm; hurtful
  2. Causing or capable of causing harm; injurious.
ill
Causing pain, hardship, etc.; adverse
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  1. Causing pain, hardship, etc.; adverse
  2. Resulting from or suggestive of evil intentions:
  3. Morally bad or wrong; evil
injurious
Offensive or insulting; hurtful:
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  1. Offensive or insulting; hurtful:
  2. Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful:
  3. Injuring or likely to cause injury; harmful
mischievous
Playful in a naughty or teasing way.
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  1. Playful in a naughty or teasing way.
  2. Troublesome; irritating:
  3. Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved.
Find another word for hurtful. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for hurtful, like: harmful, aching, injurious, bad, dangerous, deadly, harmful, ominous, poisonous, aching and achy.

Sentence Examples

  • I mean, it might be hurtful for your sister to see me using your mothers' things.

  • The bitter invectives against Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia, Tyre, Sidon and Egypt, put into Yahweh's mouth, are based wholly on the fact that these peoples are regarded as hostile and hurtful to Israel; Babylonia, though nowise superior to Egypt morally, is favoured and applauded because it is believed to be the instrument for securing ultimately the prosperity of Yahweh's people.

  • The Westminster Directory which superseded the Book of Common Order also enjoins interment "without any ceremony," such being stigmatized as "no way beneficial to the dead and many ways hurtful to the living."

  • He deems all non-theological science to be vain or hurtful, has no notion of progress, and regards true science - i.e.

  • Primitive peoples from the Australians upwards celebrate, usually at fixed intervals, a driving out of hurtful influences.

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