What are some opposite words for hurt?
Antonyms for hurt
hɜrthurt
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term hurt.
Wiktionary
hurtverb
hurtverb
To be painful.
Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
hurtverb
Pained.
hurtverb
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
hurtverb
To undermine, impede, or damage.
This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
hurt
Injury (Latin in, not, and jus, juris, right, law) signifies primarily something done contrary to law or right; hence, something contrary to some standard of right or good; whatever reduces the value, utility, beauty, or desirableness of anything is an injury to that thing; of persons, whatever is so done as to operate adversely to one in his person, rights, property, or reputation is an injury; the word is especially used of whatever mars the integrity of the body or causes pain; as, when rescued from the wreck his injuries were found to be very slight. Injury is the general term including all the rest. Damage (Latin damnum, loss) is that which occasions loss to the possessor; hence, any impairment of value, often with the suggestion of fault on the part of the one causing it; damage reduces value, utility, or beauty; detriment (Latin deterere, to rub or wear away) is similar in meaning, but far milder. Detriment may affect value only; damage always affects real worth or utility; as a rule, the slightest use of an article by a purchaser operates to its detriment if again offered for sale, tho the article may have received not the slightest damage. Damage is partial; loss is properly absolute as far as it is predicated at all; the loss of a ship implies that it is gone beyond recovery; the loss of the rudder is a damage to the ship; but since the loss of a part still leaves a part, we may speak of a partial or a total loss. Evil commonly suggests suffering or sin, or both; as, the evils of poverty, the social evil. Harm is closely synonymous with injury; it may apply to body, mind, or estate, but always affects real worth, while injury may concern only estimated value. A hurt is an injury that causes pain, physical or mental; a slight hurt may be no real harm. Mischief is disarrangement, trouble, or harm usually caused by some voluntary agent, with or without injurious intent; a child's thoughtless sport may do great mischief; wrong is harm done with evil intent. An outrage combines insult and injury. Compare synonyms for BLEMISH; CRIMINAL; INJUSTICE.
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advantage, amelioration, benefit, blessing, boon, help, improvement, remedy, service, utilitySynonyms:
blemish, damage, detriment, disadvantage, evil, harm, impairment, injury, injustice, loss, mischief, outrage, prejudice, wrongPreposition:
The injury of the cause; an injury to the structure; injury by fire; by or from collision, interference, etc.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
injury, hurt, harm, traumanoun
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
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wound, injury, distress, detriment, harm, accidental injury, psychic trauma, impairment, suffering, trauma, damage, scathe, combat injurydistress, hurt, sufferingnoun
psychological suffering
"the death of his wife caused him great distress"
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injury, distress, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, distraint, suffering, trauma, agony, scathe, woesuffering, hurtnoun
feelings of mental or physical pain
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injury, distress, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, agony, suffering, trauma, woe, scathedetriment, hurtnoun
a damage or loss
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injury, distress, detriment, harm, damage, suffering, trauma, scathedamage, harm, hurt, scatheadjective
the act of damaging something or someone
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suffering, injury, distress, detriment, price, harm, damage, terms, legal injury, impairment, wrong, trauma, equipment casualty, scathehurt, woundedadjective
suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
"nursing his wounded arm"; "ambulances...for the hurt men and women"
hurt, weakenedverb
damaged inanimate objects or their value
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lessened, thinned, faded, cut, diminished, weakened, vitiated, attenuate, attenuated, woundedache, smart, hurtverb
be the source of pain
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smart, languish, wound, injure, yearn, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, pine, anguish, spite, pain, yenhurtverb
give trouble or pain to
"This exercise will hurt your back"
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smart, wound, injure, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, anguish, spite, painpain, anguish, hurtverb
cause emotional anguish or make miserable
"It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"
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smart, pain, trouble, injure, wound, bruise, suffer, offend, ache, ail, anguish, spitehurt, injureverb
cause damage or affect negatively
"Our business was hurt by the new competition"
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smart, wound, injure, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, anguish, spite, painhurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spiteverb
hurt the feelings of
"She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"
Synonyms:
injure, suffer, smart, violate, shock, appall, wound, transgress, scandalise, pique, contuse, appal, scandalize, outrage, bruise, go against, breach, pain, offend, infract, spite, anguish, ache, breakhurt, ache, sufferverb
feel physical pain
"Were you hurting after the accident?"
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injure, get, abide, endure, stand, suffer, lose, smart, tolerate, meet, support, stick out, wound, stomach, sustain, pine, spite, brook, bear, yen, bruise, yearn, pain, offend, languish, digest, have, anguish, ache, put upsuffer, hurtverb
feel pain or be in pain
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injure, get, have, put up, offend, stand, smart, abide, support, wound, stomach, digest, suffer, spite, brook, anguish, stick out, tolerate, sustain, pain, meet, endure, bruise, bear, ache, lose
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How to use hurt in a sentence?
Law enforcement officer's worst nightmare. Very difficult tactical situation, luckily none of the good guys were hurt.
It hurt her heart, you could see it, with every bit of her, it hurt her to find she was safe but she was leaving her friends behind.
I'm really ashamed and embarrassed with the things I said, i can't turn back time but if I could, I would. And I'm so sorry to whoever I hurt and whoever I lied about because it truly eats away at me. It makes me feel so horrible and sick to my stomach and sad. Everything I worked my whole life to achieve, I kind of ruined it all through Twitter. It's definitely not Twitter's fault -- it's my own fault.
I wasn’t able to contact anyone who got hurt, there was nobody to call, nobody to talk to. Legally, no one knew what to do. They said, ‘Look, you’ve got to be quiet.’ So that’s what I did. This literally might be the first time I’ve talked to a person I’m not related to about it.
I was hurt about them not coming to the wedding, i understand they were going through some things, but if it's family, you're not going to miss a wedding.
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