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hurtful

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of hurtful

1 causing or capable of causing harm
  • the most hurtful thing you can do to this silk dress is put it in the dryer
Synonyms of hurtful

adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked
Words Related to hurtful

hostile, inimical, unfriendly

contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous

insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening

hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound

nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome

destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous
Near Antonyms of hurtful

advantageous, beneficial, useful

favorable, good, propitious

curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome

secure, sound

benignant

noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous
Antonyms of hurtful

anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe
2 hard to accept or bear especially emotionally
  • her ex-husband said hurtful things that she could never forgive
Synonyms of hurtful

afflicting, agonizing, bitter, cruel, excruciating, galling, grievous, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, painful, tormenting, torturous
Words Related to hurtful

insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportable

appalling, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, miserable, nasty, rotten, severe, terrible, vile, wretched

acute, extreme, intense, piercing
Near Antonyms of hurtful

bearable, endurable, supportable, sustainable, tolerable

livable (also liveable), sufferable, survivable

acceptable, allowable, reasonable
Antonyms of hurtful

gratifying, pleasing, sweet

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