Word Meanings - HURTFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome;
Additional info about word: HURTFUL
Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome; destructive. -- Hurt"ful*ly, adv. -- Hurt"ful*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HURTFUL)
- Destructive
- detrimental
- hurtful
- noxious
- injurious
- deleterious
- baleful
- baneful
- ruinous
- subversive
- Detrimental
- Injurious
- pernicious
- Grievous
- Sad
- heavy
- afflictive
- lamentable
- deplorable
- sorrowful
- painful
- burdensome
- calamitous
- disastrous
- unhappy
- Noisome
- Hurtful
- harmful
- nocuous
- pestilential
- Pernicious
- destructive
- deadly
Related words: (words related to HURTFUL)
- HURTFUL
Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome; - BANEFUL
Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n. - AFFLICTIVELY
In an afflictive manner. - DESTRUCTIVENESS
The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne. - AFFLICTIVE
Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior. - DEPLORABLENESS
State of being deplorable. - BALEFULNESS
The quality or state of being baleful. - HEAVY-HEADED
Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl. - PAINFUL
1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking; - DISASTROUS
1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous - INJURIOUS
1. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. Milton. Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute from us, we were free. Shak. 2. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, - DETRIMENTAL
Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison. Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious. - BALEFULLY
In a baleful manner; perniciously. - HARMFUL
Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. " Most harmful hazards." Strype. --Harm"ful*ly, adv. -- Harm"ful*ness, n. - NOXIOUS
1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. Too frequent an appearance in places of public - PESTILENTIALLY
Pestilently. - DESTRUCTIVELY
In a destructive manner. - INJURIOUSNESS
The quality of being injurious or hurtful; harmfulness; injury. - GRIEVOUS
1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. The famine was grievous in the land. Gen. xii. 10. The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight. Gen. xxi 11. 2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; - SUBVERSIVE
Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin. Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design of conversation. Rogers. - OBNOXIOUS
1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton. - PRUINOUS
Frosty; pruinose. - UNDEADLY
Not subject to death; immortal. -- Un*dead"li*ness, n. Wyclif. - TOP-HEAVY
Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.