Antonyms for hurtful
ˈhɜrt fəlhurt·ful

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1. hurtfuladjective

   Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.

   Synonyms:
   disadvantageous, mischievous, injurious, baneful, detrimental, prejudicial, harmful, pernicious, destructive, unwholesome, noxious

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1. hurtful

   Pernicious (Latin per, through, and neco, kill) signifies having the power of destroying or injuring, tending to hurt or kill. Pernicious is stronger than injurious; that which is injurious is capable of doing harm; that which is pernicious is likely to be destructive. Noxious (Latin noceo, hurt) is a stronger word than noisome, as referring to that which is injurious or destructive. Noisome now always denotes that which is extremely disagreeable or disgusting, especially to the sense of smell; as, the noisome stench proclaimed the presence of noxious gases.

   Antonyms:
   advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome

   Synonyms:
   bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

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1. hurtful

   Synonyms:
   mischievous, injurious, pernicious, baleful, deleterious, baneful, noxious, detrimental, prejudicial

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1. hurtfuladjective

   causing hurt

   "her hurtful unconsidered words"

   Antonyms:
   harmless, kind

   Synonyms:
   deleterious, injurious

2. deleterious, hurtful, injuriousadjective

   harmful to living things

   "deleterious chemical additives"

   Antonyms:
   kind, harmless

   Synonyms:
   deleterious, injurious

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1. hurtfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   injurious

How to use hurtful in a sentence?

1. Jane Brady:

   The remarks made by Nelly Jordan, who was elected to Nelly Jordan post by the Sussex County GOP Executive Committee, were offensive, hurtful and anti-Semitic.

2. Shirell Powell:

   That is my baby brother, so it was really hurtful, i was worried, hurt, crying, screaming, calling everybody. It was a horrible feeling.

3. John Schnatter:

   News reports attributing the use of inappropriate and hurtful language to me during a media training session regarding race are true, regardless of the context, I apologize.Simply stated, racism has no place in our society.

4. Taylor Stewart:

   If you don't like it. If you don't agree with it, that`s fine. That's your own opinion, but I mean just let people be who they are and don't say hurtful things.

5. Teri Hatcher:

   And then they went and ran it anyway. And that is even more egregious that it was so purposefully hurtful.

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