What is another word for hurting?
505 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ hˈɜːtɪŋ], [ hˈɜːtɪŋ], [ h_ˈɜː_t_ɪ_ŋ]
Hurt is an emotion that is experienced by many people in their daily lives, and there are a variety of ways to describe it. Some synonyms for hurt include pain, suffering, ache, agony, distress, and misery. Pain is a physical sensation, while suffering refers to a broader emotional experience of discomfort. Ache is often used to describe a dull, persistent pain, while agony implies intense suffering. Distress and misery both refer to emotional pain, and can be used to describe both mental and physical discomfort. Whatever word you use to describe hurt, it is important to acknowledge and address it in order to move forward and find relief.
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Similar words for hurting:
- dejected (adjective)
- depressed (adjective)
- desolate (adjective)
- grief-stricken (adjective)
- opprobrious (adjective)
- painful (adjective)
- woebegone (adjective)
- disconsolate (adjective)
- hurtful (adjective)
- impoverished (adjective)
- lamentable (adjective)
- miserable (adjective)
- sad (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- sore (adjective)
- sorrowful (adjective)
- unhappy (adjective)
- wretched (adjective)
- adversity (noun)
- craving (noun)
- heartache (noun)
- misery (noun)
- state (noun)
- blemishing (verb)
- injuring (verb)
- paining (verb)
Synonyms for Hurting:
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adj.
• dejected- Mopish ,
- all torn up ,
- atrabilious ,
- broody ,
- bummed out ,
- cast down ,
- down in the dumps ,
- in the pits ,
- shot down ,
- doleful ,
- mopey ,
- morose .
- cast-down ,
- down and out ,
- in blue funk ,
- in the toilet ,
- low-down ,
- lowdown ,
- on a downer ,
- torn up ,
- in a blue funk ,
- in the dumps ,
- taken down .
- aching ,
- extremely bad ,
- smarting ,
- dis agreeable ,
- dis tasteful ,
- dis-agreeable ,
- dis-tasteful ,
- in flamed ,
- in-flamed ,
- more saddening ,
- more throbbing ,
- most saddening ,
- most throbbing ,
- un comfortable ,
- un pleasant ,
- un-comfortable ,
- un-pleasant .
- dis tressed ,
- dis-tressed ,
- hopeless ,
- more crushed ,
- more torn up ,
- more torn-up ,
- more tornup ,
- most crushed ,
- most torn up ,
- most torn-up ,
- most tornup ,
- tornup .
- dis advantageous ,
- dis-advantageous ,
- mischievous ,
- more wounding ,
- most wounding ,
- pre judicial ,
- pre-judicial ,
- un kind ,
- un kinder ,
- un kindest ,
- un-kind ,
- un-kinder ,
- un-kindest ,
- up setting ,
- up-setting .
- have not ,
- havenot ,
- in solvent ,
- in-solvent ,
- more beggared ,
- more have not ,
- more have-not ,
- more havenot ,
- most beggared ,
- most have not ,
- most have-not ,
- most havenot ,
- penurious ,
- poverty stricken ,
- povertystricken .
- god awful ,
- more god awful ,
- more god-awful ,
- more godawful ,
- most god awful ,
- most god-awful ,
- most godawful ,
- un favorable ,
- un fortunate ,
- un satisfactory ,
- un-favorable ,
- un-fortunate ,
- un-satisfactory .
- dis contented ,
- dis-contented ,
- more agonized ,
- more racked ,
- more suffering ,
- more tormented ,
- more tortured ,
- most agonized ,
- most discontented ,
- most racked ,
- most suffering ,
- most tormented ,
- most tortured ,
- ruthful .
- be reaved ,
- be-reaved ,
- in grief ,
- more bereaved ,
- more grieved ,
- most bereaved ,
- most grieved ,
- out sorts ,
- sick heart .
- more abscessed ,
- more bruised ,
- more chafed ,
- more reddened ,
- more ulcerated ,
- most abscessed ,
- most bruised ,
- most chafed ,
- most reddened ,
- most ulcerated .
- full sorrow ,
- heavy hearted ,
- more dolent ,
- most dolent ,
- singing blues ,
- tear jerking ,
- tearful ,
- tearjerking .
- long faced ,
- longfaced ,
- more let down ,
- more let-down ,
- more letdown ,
- more long faced ,
- more long-faced ,
- more longfaced ,
- more mirthless ,
- more saddened ,
- most let down ,
- most let-down ,
- most letdown ,
- most long faced ,
- most long-faced ,
- most longfaced ,
- most mirthless ,
- most saddened ,
- un happier ,
- un happiest ,
- un happy ,
- un-happier ,
- un-happiest ,
- un-happy .
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n.
• adversity • craving • heartache • misery • state -
v.
• blemishing- Abrading ,
- Blemishing ,
- Blotting ,
- Checking ,
- Defacing ,
- Deforming ,
- Discoloring ,
- Disfiguring ,
- Distorting ,
- Dotting ,
- Flawing ,
- Flecking ,
- Fracturing ,
- Freckling ,
- Gashing ,
- Hacking ,
- Kinking ,
- Marring ,
- Nicking ,
- Notching ,
- Scarring ,
- Scuffing ,
- Slitting ,
- Specking ,
- Tainting ,
- Tarnishing ,
- blistering ,
- chipping ,
- cracking ,
- damaging ,
- defecting ,
- marking ,
- scoring ,
- scraping ,
- scratching ,
- splotching ,
- spoiling ,
- spotting ,
- staining .
Other relevant words:
- Convulsed ,
- Crucified ,
- Dolorific ,
- Gnawing ,
- Griping ,
- Harrowed ,
- Hemorrhoids ,
- Hobbling ,
- Incapacitation ,
- Maiming ,
- Martyred ,
- Racked ,
- Ruinousness ,
- Spasmatic ,
- Wrung ,
- ache ,
- aches and pains ,
- achy ,
- acute ,
- adversity ,
- affectionate ,
- afflicted ,
- afflictive ,
- aggravation ,
- agonised ,
- agonising ,
- agonized ,
- agony ,
- algetic ,
- anger ,
- angry ,
- anguish ,
- annoyance ,
- apprehend ,
- arouse ,
- arthralgia ,
- atrocious ,
- bad ,
- bankruptcy ,
- bemoan ,
- biting ,
- bitter ,
- bother ,
- botheration ,
- breakage ,
- breakdown ,
- burning ,
- caring ,
- chafed ,
- chest pain ,
- colic ,
- collapse ,
- comprehend ,
- crack-up ,
- crank ,
- cranky ,
- craving ,
- crippling ,
- cruel ,
- damage ,
- defy ,
- dejected ,
- deplore ,
- depressed ,
- desolate ,
- destruction ,
- detriment ,
- dilapidation ,
- disablement ,
- disagreeable ,
- discern ,
- discomfit ,
- discomfort ,
- discompose ,
- disconcert ,
- disconsolate ,
- discover ,
- displeasing ,
- disrepair ,
- distasteful ,
- distress ,
- distressed ,
- distressful ,
- disturb ,
- disturbance ,
- dolor ,
- dolorous ,
- educe ,
- elicit ,
- encroachment ,
- enkindle ,
- enrage ,
- evoke ,
- excite ,
- excruciating ,
- feel ,
- fond ,
- frenzied ,
- grave ,
- grief-stricken ,
- grievous ,
- harassment ,
- hard ,
- harm ,
- harrowing ,
- harsh ,
- heartache ,
- hemorrhoid ,
- hot ,
- huffy ,
- hurt ,
- hurtful ,
- impairment ,
- impoverished ,
- in pain ,
- indispose ,
- inflame ,
- inflamed ,
- infliction ,
- infringement ,
- injure ,
- injury ,
- inroad ,
- invite ,
- irritate ,
- irritated ,
- irritation ,
- kindle ,
- lacerated ,
- lamentable ,
- loss ,
- lovesome ,
- mad ,
- malaise ,
- martyrized ,
- mayhem ,
- melancholic ,
- mischief ,
- miserable ,
- misery ,
- mutilation ,
- nagging ,
- nasty ,
- neuralgia ,
- neuralgic ,
- nociceptive ,
- nuisance ,
- obnoxious ,
- offend ,
- opprobrious ,
- pain ,
- pained ,
- painful ,
- painful sensation ,
- painfulness ,
- pang ,
- paroxysmal ,
- perceive ,
- piercing ,
- poignant ,
- provoke ,
- pungent ,
- raw ,
- ruination ,
- sabotage ,
- sad ,
- scathe ,
- see ,
- sensible ,
- sensitive ,
- severe ,
- sharp ,
- shooting ,
- sickening ,
- somber ,
- sore ,
- sorrowful ,
- spasmodic ,
- stabbing ,
- sting ,
- stir ,
- temper ,
- tender ,
- tenderness ,
- thankless ,
- torment ,
- tormented ,
- tortured ,
- torturous ,
- tristful ,
- trouble ,
- twisted ,
- unacceptable ,
- undesirable ,
- undesired ,
- unhappy ,
- uninviting ,
- unpalatable ,
- unpleasant ,
- unpleasing ,
- unpopular ,
- unwelcome ,
- vulnerable ,
- wake ,
- warm ,
- weakening ,
- woebegone ,
- wounded ,
- wretched .
How to use "Hurting" in context?
There are many ways to hurt someone. Some are small, some are big, but they all hurt in their own way.
Some small ways to hurt someone might be to not give them their desired answer to a question in class, to say something mean to them, or to not return their text message quickly enough. These kinds of things can really hurt someone's feelings and can lead to them feeling upset.
Big ways to hurt someone might be to brutally kill them, to do something that legitimately risks their life like driving them into a tree, or to emotionally devastate them by leaving them for someone else.
Paraphrases for Hurting:
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Forward Entailment
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Reverse Entailment
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Verb, gerund or present participle
wounding.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
hits.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
ailing, altering, attacking, beating, bleeding, breaking, complaining, compromising, constraining, corrupting, crying, damaging, depicting, diminishing, eroding, failing, feeling, fighting, getting, grieving, hindering, hitting, impair, impeding, inducing, inhibiting, injury, insulting, interfering, jumping, kicking, knocking, knowing, laboring, lacking, locating, malfunctioning, missing, misunderstanding, offending, pounding, prejudice, raging, ruining, scratched, slipping, spend, stifling, sting, striking, striving, suffering, tackling, tearing, touching, troubling, trying, upsetting, weakening, Assaulting, Breaching, Derailing, Destroying, Detracting, Disposing, Disrupting, Distorting, Encountering, Endangering, Experiencing, Hampering, Impacting, Impairing, Infecting, Influencing, Infringing, Jeopardizing, Minting, Neglecting, Occurring, Removing, Robbing, Sacrificing, Sentencing, curbing, Combating, Prejudging, Prejudicing, Punching, Suing, Suppressing, undermining, countering, rapping, destabilizing, sabotaging, banging, jeopardising, killing, combatting, disadvantaging.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Verb, gerund or present participle
aching, affecting, struggling, Injuring.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Homophones for Hurting:
- herting.
Hyponym for Hurting:
n.
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state
symptom.
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state
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