hurtful

  • 11hurtful — adjective making you feel very upset or offended: a hurtful remark hurtfully adverb hurtfulness noun (U) …

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  • 12hurtful — adjective the effects of hurtful remarks may last a lifetime Syn: upsetting, distressing, wounding, painful, injurious; unkind, cruel, nasty, mean, malicious, spiteful, vindictive; cutting, barbed, poisonous; informal catty, bitchy …

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  • 13hurtful — adjective Date: 1526 causing injury, detriment, or suffering ; damaging • hurtfully adverb • hurtfulness noun …

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  • 14hurtful — hurtfully, adv. hurtfulness, n. /herrt feuhl/, adj. causing hurt or injury; injurious; harmful. [1520 30; HURT + FUL] Syn. destructive, pernicious; noxious. * * * …

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  • 15hurtful — Synonyms and related words: acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, baleful, baneful, biting, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cramping, cruel, cutting, damaging, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental,… …

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  • 16hurtful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. injurious, harmful. See badness. Ant., harmless. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. harmful, aching, injurious, bad; see dangerous 1 , 2 , deadly , harmful , ominous , poisonous . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 17hurtful — hurt|ful [ hɜrtfəl ] adjective causing emotional pain …

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  • 18hurtful — hurt·ful || hÉœrtfÊŠl /hɜːt adj. injurious, harmful; distressing, grievous …

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  • 19hurtful — adjective causing distress; upsetting. Derivatives hurtfully adverb hurtfulness noun …

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  • 20hurtful — a. Injurious, detrimental, mischievous, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, baneful, prejudicial, disadvantageous, harmful, baleful …

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