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Hurt vs Irritated - What's the difference?

hurt | irritated |

As verbs the difference between hurt and irritated

is that hurt is to be painful while irritated is (irritate).

As adjectives the difference between hurt and irritated

is that hurt is wounded, physically injured while irritated is experiencing a feeling of irritation.

As a noun hurt

is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).

hurt

English

Verb

  • To be painful.
  • Does your leg still hurt ? / It is starting to feel better.
  • To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
  • If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
  • To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
  • To undermine, impede, or damage.
  • This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.

    Synonyms

    * wound, injure

    Derived terms

    * wouldn't hurt a fly

    See also

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wounded, physically injured.
  • Pained.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • I have received a hurt .
  • * John Locke
  • The pains of sickness and hurts all men feel.
  • (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thou dost me yet but little hurt .
  • (heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
  • (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  • A husk.
  • References

    irritated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (irritate)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Experiencing a feeling of irritation.
  • (pathology) Inflamed and painful.
  • Synonyms

    * (experiencing a feeling of irritation) (l)