Synonyms of hurtful

hurtful

adjective

1

as in harmful

causing or capable of causing harm

the most hurtful thing you can do to this silk dress is put it in the dryer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• harmful
• detrimental
• damaging
• dangerous
• adverse
• bad
• injurious
• hazardous
• poisonous
• pernicious
• prejudicial
• deleterious
• evil
• infectious
• wicked
• noxious
• baneful
• mischievous
• ill
• hostile
• destructive
• baleful
• nocuous
• venomous
• deadly
• unsafe
• unfriendly
• threatening
• risky
• sinister
• infective
• lethal
• insidious
• inimical
• ominous
• contagious
• menacing
• perilous
• fatal
• unhealthy
• unwholesome
• malignant
• unhealthful
• pestiferous
• pestilential
• unsound
• ruinous
• nasty
• pestilent
• killer
• imperilling
• noisome
• parlous
• imperiling
• jeopardizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• harmless
• benign
• beneficial
• innocuous
• innocent
• useful
• safe
• inoffensive
• advantageous
• favorable
• good
• helpful
• anodyne
• healthy
• salutary
• healthful
• wholesome
• propitious
• remedial
• curative
• hurtless
• sound
• palliative
• salubrious
• secure
• benignant
• nondestructive
• nonpoisonous
• nontoxic
• nonfatal
• nonlethal
• noninfectious
• noncorrosive
• nonpolluting
• nonvenomous

2

as in painful

hard to accept or bear especially emotionally

her ex-husband said hurtful things that she could never forgive

Synonyms & Similar Words

• painful
• cruel
• harsh
• torturous
• bitter
• horrible
• terrible
• unacceptable
• agonizing
• grievous
• excruciating
• harrowing
• awful
• severe
• galling
• tormenting
• unbearable
• dreadful
• bad
• intolerable
• afflicting
• heartrending
• vile
• miserable
• insufferable
• appalling
• unendurable
• insupportable
• nasty
• dire
• unsupportable
• intense
• extreme
• ghastly
• acute
• wretched
• rotten
• piercing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sweet
• gratifying
• pleasing
• tolerable
• sustainable
• bearable
• endurable
• acceptable
• supportable
• survivable
• reasonable
• allowable
• livable
• sufferable
• liveable