Hurtful definition

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Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting.
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Causing pain or suffering, especially of a psychological nature.
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Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
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Damaging or harmful.

An incident that was hurtful to his career.

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Causing hurt; specif., wounding the feelings.

Hurtful remarks.

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Origin of hurtful

  • hurt +‎ -ful

    From Wiktionary

Hurtful Sentence Examples

  • The Westminster Directory which superseded the Book of Common Order also enjoins interment "without any ceremony," such being stigmatized as "no way beneficial to the dead and many ways hurtful to the living."

  • I mean, it might be hurtful for your sister to see me using your mothers' things.

  • The bitter invectives against Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia, Tyre, Sidon and Egypt, put into Yahweh's mouth, are based wholly on the fact that these peoples are regarded as hostile and hurtful to Israel; Babylonia, though nowise superior to Egypt morally, is favoured and applauded because it is believed to be the instrument for securing ultimately the prosperity of Yahweh's people.

  • The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China and I did not realize the potentially hurtful nature of the slogan printed on it.

  • Ouch. You have to feel for the girl, after confessing that in all of her relationships she was the "dumpee," to have it happen again in front of millions has got to be beyond humiliating and hurtful.

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