Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Causing injury or suffering; damaging.
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.
Wiktionary
- adj. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
- adj. Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. causing hurt
- adj. harmful to living things
Etymologies
- hurt + -ful (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Jackson did apologize for what he called his hurtful words.”
“SNOW: But that promise for a new kind of politics, say some Indian-American groups, clashes with what they call hurtful stereotyping, especially on the issue of outsourcing.”
“SNOW: But that promise for a new kind of politics say some Indian American groups clashes with what they call hurtful stereotyping.”
“I don't mean to change the debate; you didn't mean it that way, and certainly you have decades of wisdom and knowledge to which I am not privy, but I have had relatives in trailers and you likely haven't (or you would have found the term hurtful), and certainly if it had been another slur it would have that have no place in current usage, and when I hear that term, I think of it literally ...”
“When you have something to communicate and you couch it in hurtful ways, your message gets lost in the hurt feelings.”
“Ronald Li as good as his son got held regulating their Stock Exchange positions in hurtful income creation offenses, as good as were to be brought to trial. you dont know how it turned out.”
“My cousin's marriage and long term commitment to his partner show more "defense of marriage" and more demonstration of enduring and pure love than my four tawdry debacles of drunken cruelty, faithless and indulgent recklessness which all resulted in hurtful, and messy divorces.”
“Anyway, as I posted in the comments, I think one of the reasons the things that were said were so hurtful is that being the adoptive parent is a very tenuous place to be.”
“For all that, it still comes down to the same thing: You don’t mind being called fat, therefore no one else is allowed to object, therefore you’re going to call people fat even if they find the term hurtful and offensive, even as common courtesy says you should not.”
“Okay, let me get this straight: Laura Schlessinger could say whatever she wants to a national audience of millions, except for a few words that she herself acknowledges are "wrong" and "hurtful" -- and instead, has chosen to give that up so that she say these same few, "hurtful" words in private to like-minded audiences of a few thousand.”
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