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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne