Hurtful

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  • adjective. Causing pain or suffering, especially of a psychological nature.
  • adjective. Damaging or harmful.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending to hurt or impair; injurious; mischievous; causing harm or damage.
  • Synonyms Disadvantageous, detrimental, harmful, prejudicial, deleterious, baneful, nnwholesome, pernicious, noxious, destructive.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
  • adjective. Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. causing hurt
  • adjective. harmful to living things
    • Word Usage
    "Jackson did apologize for what he called his hurtful words."
    Equivalent
    harmful  unkind  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    beneficial  destructive  detrimental  distasteful  hateful  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    acute  afflictive  agonizing  also  atrocious  
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