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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. causing hurt;
- Example: "her hurtful unconsidered words"

2. harmful to living things;
- Example: "deleterious chemical additives"
[syn: deleterious, hurtful, injurious]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hurtful \Hurt"ful\, a. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn: Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome; destructive. -- Hurt"ful*ly, adv. -- Hurt"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hurtful adj 1: causing hurt; "her hurtful unconsidered words" 2: harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives" [syn: deleterious, hurtful, injurious]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

75 Moby Thesaurus words for "hurtful": acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, baleful, baneful, biting, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cramping, cruel, cutting, damaging, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, excruciating, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harmful, harrowing, harsh, hurting, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous, nasty, noisome, noxious, ominous, painful, paroxysmal, pernicious, piercing, poignant, poisonous, prejudicial, pungent, racking, scatheful, severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spiteful, stabbing, stinging, tormenting, torturous, toxic, unkind, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wounding