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Definition of Hurtful
1. Adjective. Causing hurt. "Her hurtful unconsidered words"
2. Adjective. Harmful to living things. "Deleterious chemical additives"
Definition of Hurtful
1. a. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.
Definition of Hurtful
1. Adjective. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury. ¹
2. Adjective. Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hurtful
1. causing injury [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurtful
Literary usage of Hurtful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Adverse in arms against him Peleus' Son Show'd like some hurtful lion, hardly
press'd By a whole village hunting to the death ; Careless, disdainful first, ..."
2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"sons and things arc suffered, to prevent confusion and other hurtful consequences
which might ensue upon the open forbidding or reproving of such persons in ..."
3. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"Vitamins are particularly abundant in yeast, from which it may be separated by
means of a hydrated silicate (Lloyd's reagent). Things hurtful to Vitamins. ..."
4. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza, Robert Harvey Monro Elwes (1891)
"and is so in proportion to the extent to which it can render the body capable;
contrariwise (II. xiv. IV. xxvi. xxvii.), it is hurtful, if it renders the ..."
5. The Industrial Revolution: Being the Parts Entitled Parliamentary Colbertism by William Cunningham (1908)
"1689 —1776. to show what was hurtful. The effort to render trade subservient to
industry led to the day was able to show conclusively that the apparent ..."
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