All hurtful synonyms
hurt·ful
H h adj hurtful
- distressing — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- unkind — lacking in kindness or mercy; severe.
- upsetting — overturned: an upset milk pail.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- harmful — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- prejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- nasty — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- damaging — causing or capable of causing damages; harmful; injurious.
- bad — If you say that it is bad that something happens, you mean it is unacceptable, unfortunate, or wrong.
- cutting — A cutting is a piece of writing which has been cut from a newspaper or magazine.
- deadly — If something is deadly, it is likely or able to cause someone's death, or has already caused someone's death.
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
- mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- mischievous — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- nocuous — likely to cause damage or injury; harmful; noxious.
- noxious — harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.
- ominous — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- poisonous — full of or containing poison: poisonous air; a poisonous substance.
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- aching — causing physical pain or distress: treatment for an aching back.
- afflictive — causing pain or misery
- hurting — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- wounding — an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
adjective hurtful
- cruel — Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- insensitive — deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
- tactless — lacking tact; showing no tact; undiplomatic; offendingly blunt: a tactless remark.
- inappropriate — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- injurious — harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
- evil — Profoundly immoral and malevolent.