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Hurtful
hurt·ful
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Definition/Meaning
(adjective)
causing harm or distress either physically or emotionally;
e.g. The reporter's sadistic remarks proved incredibly hurtful.
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Adverse
Adversely
Agonizing
Bad
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Baneful
Bitter
Cruel
Damaging
Dangerous
Deleterious
Detrimental
Evil
Excruciating
Galling
Grievous
Harmful
Harrowing
Harsh
Heartrending
Ill
Injurious
Mischievous
Noxious
Painful
Pernicious
Precarious
Prejudicial
Torturous
Ultrahazardous
Wicked
Worse
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Acceptable
Advantageous
Allowable
Anodyne
Bearable
Beneficial
Benign
Benignant
Curative
Endurable
Favorable
Good
Gratifying
Harmless
Healthful
Healthy
Helpful
Livable
Medicinal
Nondestructive
Nonfatal
Nonpoisonous
Nonthreatening
Nontoxic
Nonvenomous
Palliative
Pleasing
Propitious
Remedial
Restorative
Safe
Salubrious
Salutary
Secure
Sustainable
Sweet
Therapeutic
Tolerable
Useful
White
Wholesome
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Afflictive
Appalling
Awful
Bad
Calamitous
Cataclysmic
Contagious
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Dangerous
Deadly
Destructive
Dire
Disadvantageous
Disastrous
Dreadful
Extreme
Fatal
Fateful
Ghastly
Grave
Grievous
Hazardous
Horrible
Hostile
Infectious
Infective
Inimical
Insidious
Insufferable
Insupportable
Intense
Intolerable
Killer
Lethal
Malignant
Menacing
Miserable
Negative
Noisome
Ominous
Painful
Parlous
Perilous
Pestiferous
Pestilent
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Piercing
Poison
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Prejudicial
Risky
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Serious
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Sinister
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Toxic
Unacceptable
Unbearable
Unendurable
Unfavorable
Unfortunate
Unfriendly
Unhealthful
Unhealthy
Unsafe
Unsound
Unsympathetic
Untoward
Unwholesome
Venomous
Venturesome
Vile
Wretched
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