Associations to the word «Hurtful»

Wiktionary

HURTFUL, adjective. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
HURTFUL, adjective. Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting.

Dictionary definition

HURTFUL, adjective. Causing hurt; "her hurtful unconsidered words".
HURTFUL, adjective. Harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope