Synonyms of hurting

hurting 1 of 2

adjective

as in aching

causing or feeling bodily pain

a badly hurting finger kept her from writing neatly

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aching
• painful
• sore
• damaging
• swollen
• hurtful
• injurious
• pinching
• achy
• nasty
• bleeding
• detrimental
• afflictive
• harmful
• agonizing
• burning
• deleterious
• torturous
• excruciating
• pernicious
• severe
• nagging
• stinging
• cramping
• threatening
• inflamed
• noxious
• raw
• smarting
• tender
• chafing
• festering
• wounding
• itching
• pricking
• grievous
• enflamed
• prickling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• helping
• healing
• painless
• remedial
• indolent
• curative

hurting

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verb

present participle of hurt

1

as in throbbing

to feel or cause physical pain

my head hurts

a bad sprain that really hurts

I hurt all over

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aching
• throbbing
• swelling
• smarting
• paining
• tingling
• bleeding
• stinging
• cramping
• biting
• itching
• suffering
• festering
• burning
• nagging
• pinching
• racking
• chafing
• afflicting
• tormenting
• torturing
• pounding
• twinging
• agonizing
• twingeing
• anguishing
• harrowing

2

as in damaging

to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of

don't worry that you'll hurt the new lawn by walking across it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• damaging
• injuring
• marring
• crippling
• compromising
• weakening
• harming
• eroding
• spoiling
• impairing
• breaking
• destroying
• undermining
• ruining
• crossing (up)
• disfiguring
• defacing
• deteriorating
• vitiating
• crabbing
• shattering
• bloodying
• flawing
• wounding
• blemishing
• endamaging
• battering
• wrecking
• wearing (away)
• tarnishing
• torturing
• enfeebling
• demolishing
• devastating
• enervating
• denting
• scouring
• crushing
• blighting
• washing out
• smashing
• tormenting
• wasting
• mutilating
• disabling
• maiming
• lacerating
• decimating
• botching
• annihilating
• bashing
• hamstringing
• gumming (up)
• mangling
• clobbering
• wiping out
• pulverizing
• totaling
• dinging
• totalling
• dinting
• queering
• tearing down
• razing
• scourging
• laming
• doing in
• dashing
• desolating
• banging up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• repairing
• helping
• fixing
• rebuilding
• reconstructing
• healing
• renovating
• patching
• mending
• rehabilitating
• revamping
• reconditioning
• curing
• remedying
• improving
• rectifying
• revising
• doctoring
• remodeling
• enhancing
• editing
• enriching
• bettering
• refining
• ameliorating
• perfecting
• meliorating

3

as in injuring

to cause bodily damage to

the common belief that reading in poor light hurts your eyes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• damaging
• injuring
• wounding
• bruising
• harming
• tearing
• torturing
• scarring
• crippling
• blowing out
• battering
• lacerating
• mutilating
• tormenting
• maiming
• straining
• afflicting
• grazing
• abusing
• scalding
• gashing
• cutting
• impairing
• creasing
• hamstringing
• nicking
• mangling
• bloodying
• scathing
• contusing
• goring
• scraping
• maltreating
• laming
• marring
• spoiling
• laying up
• aggrieving
• blemishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• healing
• fixing
• curing
• remedying
• mending

4

as in grieving

to feel deep sadness or mental pain

I know you must be hurting from the cruel words they said

Synonyms & Similar Words

• grieving
• aching
• mourning
• sighing
• suffering
• crying
• bleeding
• sobbing
• sorrowing
• agonizing
• weeping
• anguishing
• smarting
• groaning
• eating one's heart out
• tormenting
• torturing
• tearing one's hair
• moaning
• lamenting
• bewailing
• pining (away)
• longing (for)
• racking
• bawling
• bemoaning
• deploring
• howling
• ruing
• languishing
• regretting
• blubbering
• yammering
• wailing
• keening
• yowling
• taking on

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• laughing
• cheering
• rejoicing
• delighting
• exulting
• beaming
• glorying
• triumphing
• ravishing
• assuring
• comforting
• crowing
• reassuring
• sympathizing
• consoling
• soothing
• joying
• commiserating
• solacing