Synonyms and Antonyms of hurtful
1
causing or capable of causing harm
- the most hurtful thing you can do to this silk dress is put it in the dryer
adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked
hostile, inimical, unfriendly
contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous
insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening
hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound
nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome
destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous
advantageous, beneficial, useful
favorable, good, propitious
curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome
secure, sound
benignant
noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous
2
hard to accept or bear especially emotionally
- her ex-husband said hurtful things that she could never forgive
afflicting, agonizing, bitter, cruel, excruciating, galling, grievous, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, painful, tormenting, torturous
insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportable
appalling, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, miserable, nasty, rotten, severe, terrible, vile, wretched
acute, extreme, intense, piercing
