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Synonyms for hurtful
ˈhɜrt fəlhurt·ful
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Wiktionary
hurtfuladjective
Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
Synonyms:
disadvantageous, mischievous, injurious, baneful, detrimental, prejudicial, harmful, pernicious, destructive, unwholesome, noxious
English Synonyms and Antonyms
hurtful
Pernicious (Latin per, through, and neco, kill) signifies having the power of destroying or injuring, tending to hurt or kill. Pernicious is stronger than injurious; that which is injurious is capable of doing harm; that which is pernicious is likely to be destructive. Noxious (Latin noceo, hurt) is a stronger word than noisome, as referring to that which is injurious or destructive. Noisome now always denotes that which is extremely disagreeable or disgusting, especially to the sense of smell; as, the noisome stench proclaimed the presence of noxious gases.
Synonyms:
bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesomeAntonyms:
advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
hurtful
Synonyms:
mischievous, injurious, pernicious, baleful, deleterious, baneful, noxious, detrimental, prejudicial
Princeton's WordNet
hurtfuladjective
causing hurt
"her hurtful unconsidered words"
Synonyms:
deleterious, injuriousdeleterious, hurtful, injuriousadjective
harmful to living things
"deleterious chemical additives"
Synonyms:
deleterious, injurious
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
hurtfuladjective
Synonyms:
injurious, detrimental, mischievous, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, baneful, prejudicial, disadvantageous, harmful, baleful
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
hurtfuladjective
Synonyms:
injurious
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "hurtful":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#841 | bad | |
#3009 | evil | |
#9200 | deadly | |
#9372 | painful | |
#9672 | harmful | |
#9718 | foul | |
#13351 | destructive | |
#20371 | detrimental | |
#24683 | poisonous | |
#31651 | noxious | |
#41054 | prejudicial | |
#42095 | injurious | |
#42256 | mischievous | |
#43999 | deleterious | |
#48711 | pernicious | |
#54344 | hurtful | |
#84995 | ruinous | |
#96594 | disadvantageous | |
#101921 | unwholesome | |
#114245 | baleful | |
#132519 | baneful | |
#177128 | perverting | |
#196741 | unhealthful | |
#227568 | noisome | |
#264537 | pestilential |
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Whoopi Goldberg knows our center. She knows Rabbi Marvin Hier, our CEO and founder, we're not dealing with someone here who spoke in order to hurt anyone in our community. But what she said obviously is extremely confusing to people and in many ways hurtful.
People do not relate to softness anymore - in talk or under the guise of misunderstanding - they seem satisfied when they have proved to themselves that softness was feigned or blatant pretence and they were right in thinking hard and ugly thoughts of sarcasm, spite or other hurtful intentions
People you care about leaving you with hurtful goodbyes are more likely to be a means to an end, but not the end themselves.
In general, the college cannot prevent the use of hurtful language on campus. Such language, intentional or unintentional, exists in the world and will seep into our community, we can't promise that the college will never host a speaker who could say something racist, homophobic, misogynistic or otherwise disrespectful.
The most hurtful part is how close it was to home, we would have never thought that this was going to happen here. And I’m sure people say that everywhere. But it’s shocking … And of course, I’m going to think about my mom and think about my family, my aunts, my uncles. It could have been them.
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