Hurtful

Adjective

 * 1) Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
 * 2) * 1649: John Milton, Eikonoklastes
 * A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
 * 1) * 1890: George Henry Rohé, Text-book of hygiene
 * Well-cultivated soils are often healthy; nor at present has it been proved that the use of manure is hurtful.
 * 1) Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting.

Synonyms

 * pernicious, harmful, baneful, prejudicial, detrimental, disadvantageous, mischievous, injurious, noxious, unwholesome, destructive; see also Thesaurus:harmful

Adverbs for Hurtful
mischievously; intentionally; deliberately; innocently; unconsciously; dreadfully; perniciously; maliciously; obnoxiously; legally; disastrously; venomously; villainously; exceptionably; deplorably; pitiably; lamentably; wretchedly; sadly; reprehensibly; confoundedly; hopelessly; purposely; irremediably; dangerously; alarmingly; seriously; hopelessly; desperately; unusually; incredibly.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Finnish:, , , pahansuopa

Related terms

 * hurt
 * hurtfully
 * hurtfulness

Anagrams

 * ruthful