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hurt

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of hurt

1 a state of great suffering of body or mind
  • In her hurt she said a lot of things that she didn't really mean.
Synonyms of hurt

affliction, agony, anguish, distress, excruciation, misery, pain, rack, strait(s), torment, torture, travail, tribulation, woe
Words Related to hurt

discomfort

cross, crucible, trial

heartache, heartbreak, joylessness, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness

emergency, pinch

asperity, difficulty, hardship, rigor

ache, pang, smarting, soreness, stitch, throe, twinge

danger, jeopardy, trouble
Near Antonyms of hurt

comfort, consolation, solace

alleviation, assuagement, ease, relief

peace, security

well-being
2 something that causes loss or pain
  • a totally baseless accusation that caused lasting hurt to his reputation
Synonyms of hurt

affliction, damage, detriment, harm, injury
Words Related to hurt

disservice, injustice, outrage, wrong

affront, dart, indignity, insult, offense (or offence)

beating, crippling, mayhem, mutilation

defacement, disability, disablement, disfigurement, impairment

lesion

rupture, strain

abrasion, chafe, scrape, scratch

boo-boo, bruise, contusion, swelling, wound

bump, concussion

cut, gash, laceration

burn, scald, scar, scathe, sear
Near Antonyms of hurt

healing, recovery

cure, fix, remedy

hurt

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of hurt

1 to feel or cause physical pain
  • My head hurts.
  • a bad sprain that really hurts
  • I hurt all over.
Synonyms of hurt

ache, pain, smart
Words Related to hurt

bite, bleed, burn, chafe, cramp, fester, itch, nag, pinch, pound, rack, sting, swell, throb, tingle, twinge

agonize, anguish, suffer

afflict, harrow, torment, torture
2 to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
  • Don't worry that you'll hurt the new lawn by walking across it.
Synonyms of hurt

blemish, bloody, break, compromise, crab, cripple, cross (up), damage, deface, disfigure, endamage, flaw, harm, impair, injure, mar, spoil, vitiate
Words Related to hurt

deteriorate, enervate, enfeeble, undermine, weaken

erode, scour, wash out, wear (away)

blight, tarnish

dent, ding, dint

botch, gum (up), queer

lacerate, wound

disable, hamstring, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, torment, torture

annihilate, bang up, bash, batter, clobber, crush, dash, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, scourge, shatter, smash, tear down, total, waste, wipe out, wreck
Near Antonyms of hurt

cure, heal, help, rectify, rehabilitate, remedy

edit, remodel, revise

ameliorate, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine
Antonyms of hurt

doctor, fix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, revamp
3 to cause bodily damage to
  • the common belief that reading in poor light hurts your eyes
Synonyms of hurt

damage, harm, injure, wound
Words Related to hurt

batter, bloody, blow out, bruise, contuse, cut, gash, gore, lacerate, scald, scar, scathe, strain, tear

crease, graze, nick

cripple, hamstring, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate

abuse, aggrieve, afflict, maltreat, torment, torture

lay up

blemish, impair, mar, scrape, spoil
Near Antonyms of hurt

cure, fix, heal, mend, remedy
4 to feel deep sadness or mental pain
  • It hurt me to see them go.
Synonyms of hurt

agonize, anguish, bleed, grieve, mourn, sorrow, suffer
Words Related to hurt

ache, long (for), pine (away), sigh, smart

rack, torment, torture

bemoan, bewail, deplore, lament, rue

bawl, blubber, cry, groan, howl, keen, moan, sob, take on, wail, weep, yammer, yowl

languish

regret
Phrases Synonymous with hurt

eat one's heart out, tear one's hair
Near Antonyms of hurt

beam, cheer, crow, delight, exult, glory, joy, laugh, ravish, rejoice, triumph

assure, cheer, comfort, commiserate, console, reassure, solace, soothe, sympathize

Synonym Discussion of hurt

injure, harm, hurt, damage, impair, mar mean to affect injuriously. injure implies the inflicting of anything detrimental to one's looks, comfort, health, or success.
    • badly injured in an accident
harm often stresses the inflicting of pain, suffering, or loss.
    • careful not to harm the animals
hurt implies inflicting a wound to the body or to the feelings.
    • hurt by their callous remarks
damage suggests injury that lowers value or impairs usefulness.
    • a table damaged in shipping
impair suggests a making less complete or efficient by deterioration or diminution.
    • years of smoking had impaired his health
mar applies to injury that spoils perfection (as of a surface) or causes disfigurement.
    • the text is marred by many typos

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