Hurt vs Antagonistic - What's the difference?
hurt | antagonistic |
To be painful.
To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
To undermine, impede, or damage.
An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
* How to overcome old hurts of the past
(archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
* 1605 , Shakespeare, King Lear vii
* John Locke
(archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
* Shakespeare
(heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
(engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
A husk.
Contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.
* Milman
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As adjectives the difference between hurt and antagonistic
is that hurt is wounded, physically injured while antagonistic is contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.As a verb hurt
is to be painful.As a noun hurt
is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).hurt
English
Verb
- Does your leg still hurt ? / It is starting to feel better.
- If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
- This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.
Synonyms
* wound, injureDerived terms
* wouldn't hurt a flySee also
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- I have received a hurt .
- The pains of sickness and hurts all men feel.
- Thou dost me yet but little hurt .
References
antagonistic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic .