620 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ hˈɜːtfə͡l], [ hˈɜːtfə‍l], [ h_ˈɜː_t_f_əl]

Similar words for hurtful:

• abrasive (adjective)
• acid (adjective)
• all (adjective)
• baleful (adjective)
• baneful (adjective)
• bitter (adjective)
• cutting (adjective)
• deleterious (adjective)
• destructive (adjective)
• detrimental (adjective)
• disadvantageous (adjective)
• grievous (adjective)
• harmful (adjective)
• ill (adjective)
• inimical (adjective)
• injurious, cruel (adjective)
• insulting (adjective)
• lethal (adjective)
• malevolent (adjective)
• mephitical (adjective)
• mischievous (adjective)
• noisome (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• painful (adjective)
• poison/poisonous (adjective)
• prejudicial (adjective)
• sinister (adjective)
• sore (adjective)
• trenchant (adjective)
• unmerciful (adjective)
• harmful (noun)
• hurtful (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for hurtful

Synonyms for Hurtful:

• adj.

  • abrasive (adjective)
  • spiky,
  • galling,
  • spikier,
  • spikiest,
  • hard to take.
  • acid (adjective)
  • mordant,
  • offensive.
  • all (adjective)
  • hurtful.
  • baleful (adjective)
  • fore-boding,
  • more foreboding,
  • more evil,
  • venomous,
  • most foreboding,
  • fore boding.
  • baneful (adjective)
  • wicked,
  • malefic.
  • bitter (adjective)
  • dis pleasing,
  • dis-pleasing,
  • in-tense,
  • in-temperate,
  • in-clement,
  • in clement,
  • in tense,
  • un-palatable,
  • un palatable,
  • in-tensest,
  • dis-tasteful,
  • in tenser,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • dis tasteful,
  • dis agreeable,
  • in-tenser,
  • in temperate.
  • cutting (adjective)
  • scathing,
  • most wounding,
  • ingoinger,
  • more wounding,
  • ingoingest,
  • clearcut,
  • in-goingest,
  • in goingest,
  • In-going,
  • in-goinger,
  • in goinger,
  • in going.
  • deleterious (adjective)
  • de stroying,
  • pre-judicious,
  • most prejudicious,
  • pre judicious,
  • most ruining,
  • more destroying,
  • most nocent,
  • more ruining,
  • de-stroying,
  • most destroying,
  • more prejudicious,
  • more nocent.
  • destructive (adjective)
  • Eradicative,
  • Wrackful,
  • Extirpative,
  • feller,
  • Wreckful,
  • Lethiferous.
  • detrimental (adjective)
  • un favorable,
  • un-favorable.
  • disadvantageous (adjective)
  • dis-advantageous,
  • most debit-side,
  • more debit side,
  • more downside,
  • un complimentary,
  • most debit side,
  • un profitable,
  • de-rogatory,
  • debitside,
  • ill-timed,
  • more debit-side,
  • in-expedient,
  • more debitside,
  • de rogatory,
  • most dyslogistic,
  • illtimed,
  • most debitside,
  • in-opportune,
  • in expedient,
  • more uncomplimentary,
  • in opportune,
  • more detracting,
  • most uncomplimentary,
  • objectionable,
  • most detracting,
  • un-profitable,
  • dis advantageous,
  • un-complimentary,
  • more dyslogistic,
  • most downside,
  • on debit side.
  • grievous (adjective)
  • heart rending,
  • more heart-rending,
  • up-setting,
  • most heart-rending,
  • in tolerable,
  • most heart rending,
  • more heart rending,
  • dis quieting,
  • in-tolerable,
  • up setting,
  • more afflicting,
  • un-bearable,
  • egregious,
  • dis-quieting,
  • most afflicting,
  • un bearable.
  • harmful (adjective)
  • bad,
  • ominous,
  • poisonous,
  • dangerous.
  • ill (adjective)
  • ill mannered,
  • inauspicious,
  • un luckiest,
  • un-luckier,
  • more unpromising,
  • un-fortunate,
  • un fortunate,
  • most unpromising,
  • un-gracious,
  • un propitious,
  • un-wholesome,
  • un-friendlier,
  • un-friendliest,
  • un-friendly,
  • un kinder,
  • un wholesome,
  • illmannered,
  • un-kindest,
  • un friendlier,
  • unpropitious,
  • in auspicious,
  • un lucky,
  • un gracious,
  • un luckier,
  • un kindest,
  • un-propitious,
  • un-luckiest,
  • dis respectful,
  • un friendliest,
  • un-kinder,
  • in-auspicious,
  • un-lucky,
  • un-promising,
  • dis-respectful,
  • un-kind,
  • un kind,
  • un promising.
  • inimical (adjective)
  • Oppugnant,
  • ill-disposed,
  • inimicable,
  • unwelcoming.
  • injurious, cruel (adjective)
  • distressing,
  • damaging,
  • malicious,
  • upsetting,
  • nasty,
  • pernicious,
  • mischievous,
  • spiteful,
  • evil,
  • hurting,
  • wounding,
  • deadly,
  • aching,
  • mean,
  • Nocuous.
  • insulting (adjective)
  • dis courteous,
  • de grading,
  • in solent,
  • most ridiculing,
  • more ridiculing,
  • de-grading,
  • in-solent,
  • un civil,
  • un-civil,
  • dis-courteous.
  • lethal (adjective)
  • necrotic,
  • murderous,
  • Mortiferous.
  • malevolent (adjective)
  • foul,
  • perfidious,
  • churlish,
  • ill-natured,
  • catty,
  • corrosive,
  • vindictive,
  • malevolent,
  • antagonistic,
  • treacherous,
  • Black-hearted,
  • hostile,
  • virulent,
  • malignant,
  • hateful,
  • rancorous,
  • sullen,
  • vicious.
  • mephitical (adjective)
  • Mephitical.
  • mischievous (adjective)
  • illbehaved,
  • teasing,
  • holy terror,
  • more rascally,
  • most misbehaving,
  • most exasperating,
  • ex asperating,
  • more exasperating,
  • more ill-behaved,
  • impish,
  • most ill-behaved,
  • most rascal,
  • most illbehaved,
  • most dickens,
  • more illbehaved,
  • mis behaving,
  • most rascally,
  • more vexing,
  • more rascal,
  • more misbehaving,
  • most vexing,
  • ex-asperating,
  • mis-behaving,
  • pre carious,
  • most ill behaved,
  • more dickens,
  • ill behaved,
  • more ill behaved,
  • pre-carious.
  • noisome (adjective)
  • yucky,
  • mephitic,
  • Insalutary.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • detrimental,
  • prejudicious,
  • disadvantageous,
  • uncomplimentary,
  • unpromising,
  • trenchant,
  • painful,
  • nocent,
  • barbed,
  • ill-behaved,
  • noisome,
  • counterproductive,
  • debit side,
  • sore,
  • coldhearted,
  • septic,
  • counter-productive,
  • unmerciful,
  • insulting,
  • on the debit side,
  • dickens,
  • rascally,
  • grievous,
  • ulcerated,
  • heart-rending,
  • bitter,
  • dyslogistic,
  • baleful,
  • baneful,
  • differential,
  • blackhearted,
  • Doomful,
  • lethal,
  • destructive,
  • noxious,
  • prejudicial,
  • inhumane,
  • inimical,
  • Miasmatic,
  • toxicant,
  • ill timed,
  • debit-side,
  • toxiferous,
  • sinister,
  • ingoing,
  • clear cut,
  • deleterious,
  • cutting.
  • painful (adjective)
  • crushing,
  • Torturing.,
  • excruciating,
  • grueling,
  • troublesome,
  • unbearable,
  • Gnawing,
  • annoying,
  • severe,
  • arduous,
  • inflaming,
  • extremely bad,
  • chafing,
  • miserable,
  • Besetting,
  • stinging,
  • wrenching,
  • throbbing,
  • irritating,
  • uncomfortable,
  • insufferable,
  • odious,
  • stabbing,
  • bothersome,
  • aggravating,
  • cruel,
  • piercing,
  • acute,
  • smarting,
  • unpleasant,
  • trying,
  • agonizing,
  • withering,
  • torturing,
  • oppressive,
  • biting,
  • burdensome,
  • distressful,
  • tormenting,
  • Irksome,
  • disagreeable,
  • Cramping,
  • woeful,
  • harrowing,
  • anguishing,
  • horrendous.
  • poison/poisonous (adjective)
  • more miasmatic,
  • most infective,
  • more toxiferous,
  • more septic,
  • more infective,
  • infective,
  • most miasmatic,
  • most toxiferous,
  • most septic.
  • prejudicial (adjective)
  • more counterproductive,
  • dis criminatory,
  • most differential,
  • un-just,
  • un just,
  • un juster,
  • pre-judicial,
  • un justest,
  • more differential,
  • most counterproductive,
  • un-juster,
  • dis-criminatory,
  • counter productive,
  • pre judicial,
  • un-justest.
  • sinister (adjective)
  • dis honest,
  • portentous,
  • ill boding,
  • more doomful,
  • more blackhearted,
  • Ill-boding,
  • illboding,
  • most blackhearted,
  • most doomful,
  • dis-honest.
  • sore (adjective)
  • more bruised,
  • most chafed,
  • most reddened,
  • most bruised,
  • most ulcerated,
  • more abscessed,
  • more chafed,
  • pained,
  • more ulcerated,
  • most abscessed,
  • more reddened.
  • trenchant (adjective)
  • to the point,
  • razor-sharp,
  • the point.
  • unmerciful (adjective)
  • un feeling,
  • un relenting,
  • un pitying,
  • un merciful,
  • un caring,
  • in-humane,
  • un-caring,
  • un-pitying,
  • un-merciful.

• n.

  •
  • inhuman,
  • pitiless,
  • monstrous,
  • awful,
  • uncharitable,
  • hard.
  •
  • pain.
  •
  • help,
  • ill.
  • harmful (noun)
  • harmful.
  • hurtful (noun)
  • injurious,
  • unkind.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • characteristic.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • health.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • afflictive,
  • achy,
  • nagging.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • displeasing,
  • criminal,
  • impairment,
  • piquant,
  • tumbledown,
  • improper,
  • disturbing,
  • grievously,
  • harm,
  • undesirable,
  • vitriolic,
  • acid,
  • burning,
  • sensitive,
  • shocking,
  • exploitive,
  • injury,
  • oppress,
  • tragically,
  • unfavourable,
  • tender,
  • unhappily,
  • undesired,
  • gnaw,
  • toxic,
  • miasmic,
  • pestilential,
  • dolorous,
  • disadvantage,
  • iii,
  • merciless,
  • brutal,
  • mistakenly,
  • harry,
  • base,
  • ruinously,
  • heavy,
  • depravity,
  • erroneously,
  • pester,
  • disturb,
  • injure,
  • Endamage,
  • racking,
  • sinfulness,
  • ruinous,
  • slanderous,
  • traumatic,
  • unpalatable,
  • inauspiciously,
  • afflict,
  • veneniferous,
  • wrongly,
  • Spasmatic,
  • grievance,
  • overwhelming,
  • incorrectly,
  • punitive,
  • damage,
  • worry,
  • persecute,
  • grave,
  • affront,
  • exploitative,
  • harmfully,
  • unwholesome,
  • sharp,
  • acrimonious,
  • Disserviceable,
  • unfavorable,
  • snide,
  • drastic,
  • sin,
  • ineptly,
  • mischief-making,
  • cataclysmic,
  • haunt,
  • torment,
  • acerbic,
  • abrasive,
  • viciously,
  • corrupting,
  • adverse,
  • mischievously,
  • harsh,
  • malign,
  • agonising,
  • sternly,
  • poorly,
  • pungent,
  • hurtfulness,
  • clumsily,
  • severely,
  • internecine,
  • spasmodic,
  • perverted,
  • poignant,
  • fell,
  • wretchedly,
  • punishing,
  • sadly,
  • unfortunately,
  • unwelcome,
  • unluckily,
  • Griping,
  • polluted,
  • unpleasing,
  • strict,
  • Venenate,
  • insalubrious,
  • debased,
  • badly,
  • perniciousness,
  • seriously,
  • annoy,
  • iniquity,
  • cark,
  • rotten,
  • unhygienic,
  • harmfulness,
  • shooting,
  • awkwardly,
  • Damnify,
  • paroxysmal,
  • Sinisterly,
  • agonize,
  • unpopular,
  • niggle,
  • torturous,
  • Scathful,
  • degeneracy,
  • tantalize,
  • calamitously,
  • serious,
  • obnoxious,
  • disastrous,
  • unkindly,
  • torture,
  • ominously,
  • wrong,
  • unacceptable,
  • traumatizing,
  • awfully,
  • atrocious,
  • corruption,
  • uninviting,
  • wound,
  • hurt,
  • abusive,
  • vesicant,
  • inopportunely,
  • bedevil,
  • beset,
  • suicidal,
  • vex,
  • disservice,
  • disastrously,
  • gravely,
  • evilly,
  • calamitous,
  • corruptive,
  • sarcastic,
  • harass,
  • fatal,
  • penetrating,
  • gawkily,
  • sinful,
  • Scatheful,
  • not good,
  • perversely,
  • infectious,
  • distasteful,
  • pestilent,
  • Dolorific,
  • detriment,
  • incorrect,
  • damagingly,
  • vitiated,
  • infest,
  • nociceptive,
  • sardonic,
  • grieve,
  • wickedness,
  • stiff,
  • catastrophic,
  • cancerous,
  • acidulous,
  • strictly,
  • thankless,
  • venenous,
  • injustice,
  • killing,
  • injuriously,
  • mischief,
  • devastating,
  • Misapplied,
  • bruise,
  • Harassing,
  • unsafe,
  • consuming,
  • unhealthful,
  • corrupt,
  • distressfully,
  • intense,
  • adversely,
  • vile,
  • unhealthy,
  • corroding,
  • mischievousness,
  • balefulness,
  • do evil,
  • raw,
  • harshly,
  • exploitatory,
  • hardly,
  • wickedly.

Paraphrases for Hurtful:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    harmful, offensive.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    counterproductive, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, injurious, prejudicial.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    distressing, embarrassing, hurt, painful.