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Synonyms for hurt
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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  1. hurtverb

    Synonyms:
    injure, wound

  2. hurtverb

    To be painful.

    Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.

    Synonyms:
    wound, injure

  3. hurtverb

    Pained.

    Synonyms:
    injure, wound

  4. hurtverb

    To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

    Synonyms:
    wound, injure

  5. hurtverb

    To undermine, impede, or damage.

    This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.

    Synonyms:
    wound, injure

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hurt

    Injury (Latin in, not, and jus, juris, right, law) signifies primarily something done contrary to law or right; hence, something contrary to some standard of right or good; whatever reduces the value, utility, beauty, or desirableness of anything is an injury to that thing; of persons, whatever is so done as to operate adversely to one in his person, rights, property, or reputation is an injury; the word is especially used of whatever mars the integrity of the body or causes pain; as, when rescued from the wreck his injuries were found to be very slight. Injury is the general term including all the rest. Damage (Latin damnum, loss) is that which occasions loss to the possessor; hence, any impairment of value, often with the suggestion of fault on the part of the one causing it; damage reduces value, utility, or beauty; detriment (Latin deterere, to rub or wear away) is similar in meaning, but far milder. Detriment may affect value only; damage always affects real worth or utility; as a rule, the slightest use of an article by a purchaser operates to its detriment if again offered for sale, tho the article may have received not the slightest damage. Damage is partial; loss is properly absolute as far as it is predicated at all; the loss of a ship implies that it is gone beyond recovery; the loss of the rudder is a damage to the ship; but since the loss of a part still leaves a part, we may speak of a partial or a total loss. Evil commonly suggests suffering or sin, or both; as, the evils of poverty, the social evil. Harm is closely synonymous with injury; it may apply to body, mind, or estate, but always affects real worth, while injury may concern only estimated value. A hurt is an injury that causes pain, physical or mental; a slight hurt may be no real harm. Mischief is disarrangement, trouble, or harm usually caused by some voluntary agent, with or without injurious intent; a child's thoughtless sport may do great mischief; wrong is harm done with evil intent. An outrage combines insult and injury. Compare synonyms for BLEMISH; CRIMINAL; INJUSTICE.

    Synonyms:
    blemish, damage, detriment, disadvantage, evil, harm, impairment, injury, injustice, loss, mischief, outrage, prejudice, wrong

    Antonyms:
    advantage, amelioration, benefit, blessing, boon, help, improvement, remedy, service, utility

    Preposition:
    The injury of the cause; an injury to the structure; injury by fire; by or from collision, interference, etc.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hurtverb

    Synonyms:
    wound, bruise, harm, injure, damage, pain, grieve

    Antonyms:
    heal, soothe, console, repair, reinstate, compensate, benefit

  2. hurtnoun

    Synonyms:
    harm, injury, damage, wound, detriment, mischief

    Antonyms:
    benefit, pleasure

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. injury, hurt, harm, traumanoun

    any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

    Synonyms:
    wound, injury, distress, detriment, harm, accidental injury, psychic trauma, impairment, suffering, trauma, damage, scathe, combat injury

    Antonyms:
    uninjured, undamaged

  2. distress, hurt, sufferingnoun

    psychological suffering

    "the death of his wife caused him great distress"

    Synonyms:
    injury, distress, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, distraint, suffering, trauma, agony, scathe, woe

    Antonyms:
    undamaged, uninjured

  3. suffering, hurtnoun

    feelings of mental or physical pain

    Synonyms:
    injury, distress, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, agony, suffering, trauma, woe, scathe

    Antonyms:
    uninjured, undamaged

  4. detriment, hurtnoun

    a damage or loss

    Synonyms:
    injury, distress, detriment, harm, damage, suffering, trauma, scathe

    Antonyms:
    uninjured, undamaged

  5. damage, harm, hurt, scatheadjective

    the act of damaging something or someone

    Synonyms:
    suffering, injury, distress, detriment, price, harm, damage, terms, legal injury, impairment, wrong, trauma, equipment casualty, scathe

    Antonyms:
    uninjured, undamaged

  6. hurt, woundedadjective

    suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle

    "nursing his wounded arm"; "ambulances...for the hurt men and women"

    Synonyms:
    weakened, wounded

    Antonyms:
    undamaged, uninjured

  7. hurt, weakenedverb

    damaged inanimate objects or their value

    Synonyms:
    lessened, thinned, faded, cut, diminished, weakened, vitiated, attenuate, attenuated, wounded

    Antonyms:
    undamaged, uninjured

  8. ache, smart, hurtverb

    be the source of pain

    Synonyms:
    smart, languish, wound, injure, yearn, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, pine, anguish, spite, pain, yen

    Antonyms:
    uninjured, undamaged

  9. hurtverb

    give trouble or pain to

    "This exercise will hurt your back"

    Synonyms:
    smart, wound, injure, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, anguish, spite, pain

    Antonyms:
    undamaged, uninjured

  10. pain, anguish, hurtverb

    cause emotional anguish or make miserable

    "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"

    Synonyms:
    smart, pain, trouble, injure, wound, bruise, suffer, offend, ache, ail, anguish, spite

    Antonyms:
    undamaged, uninjured

  11. hurt, injureverb

    cause damage or affect negatively

    "Our business was hurt by the new competition"

    Synonyms:
    smart, wound, injure, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, anguish, spite, pain

    Antonyms:
    undamaged, uninjured

  12. hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spiteverb

    hurt the feelings of

    "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"

    Synonyms:
    injure, suffer, smart, violate, shock, appall, wound, transgress, scandalise, pique, contuse, appal, scandalize, outrage, bruise, go against, breach, pain, offend, infract, spite, anguish, ache, break

    Antonyms:
    undamaged, uninjured

  13. hurt, ache, sufferverb

    feel physical pain

    "Were you hurting after the accident?"

    Synonyms:
    injure, get, abide, endure, stand, suffer, lose, smart, tolerate, meet, support, stick out, wound, stomach, sustain, pine, spite, brook, bear, yen, bruise, yearn, pain, offend, languish, digest, have, anguish, ache, put up

    Antonyms:
    uninjured, undamaged

  14. suffer, hurtverb

    feel pain or be in pain

    Synonyms:
    injure, get, have, put up, offend, stand, smart, abide, support, wound, stomach, digest, suffer, spite, brook, anguish, stick out, tolerate, sustain, pain, meet, endure, bruise, bear, ache, lose

    Antonyms:
    uninjured, undamaged

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ow

    cause physical pain or injury to

    you really hurt me, sam.

    Submitted by rinat on September 4, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hurtverb

    Synonyms:
    injure, harm, damage, mar, impair, do harm to

  2. hurtverb

    Synonyms:
    pain, wound, give pain to

  3. hurtnoun

    Synonyms:
    harm, injury, damage, detriment, mischief, disadvantage

  4. hurtnoun

    Synonyms:
    wound, bruise

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hurtnoun

    Synonyms:
    injury, wound, detriment, harm, damage

  2. hurtverb

    Synonyms:
    damage, wound, impair, harm, injure, offend, harry

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "hurt":

    injured, wounded, harm, injure, wrong, harmed, bad, poorly, evil, wound, injury, badly, pain, hit

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How to use hurt in a sentence?

  1. Scott Walter:

    They deserve praise because they used the law to hurt the Klan -- a lot, but as often happens in the charity world, it concocts new ways to keep donations flowing.

  2. Bin Salman:

    Well, certainly, I've made, said and done a lot of things that I regret, and I'm sorry for that and for the hurt that it's caused a lot of people, i don't condone human rights violations at all. I don't think -- nobody here does, throughout the world. I'm certainly aware of what has happened with Jamal Khashoggi.Read MoreMickelson, and I think it's terrible.

  3. Deb Olufs:

    The last thing I want is for a child to equate school with a place where he or she can be hurt.

  4. Nathen Velez:

    If it’s safe and habitable, then why does it hurt? why does it hurt me to breathe?

  5. Bill Koch:

    It can hurt so much more when we feel like we're making other people uncomfortable by talking about our kids, don't push military family members away because you're afraid you'll say the wrong thing. Just asking us means you care, and that means everything.


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