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Hurtful vs Infest - What's the difference?

hurtful | infest |

As adjectives the difference between hurtful and infest

is that hurtful is tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury while infest is (obsolete) mischievous; hurtful; harassing.

As a verb infest is

to inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers.

hurtful

English

Alternative forms

* hurtfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
  • * 1649 : , Eikonoklastes
    • A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
  • * 1890 : George Henry Rohé, Text-book of hygiene
    • Well-cultivated soils are often healthy; nor at present has it been proved that the use of manure is hurtful .
  • Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting.
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    • Synonyms

    * (tending to impair or damage) pernicious, harmful, baneful, prejudicial, detrimental, disadvantageous, mischievous, injurious, noxious, unwholesome, destructive; see also

    Related terms

    * hurt * hurtfully * hurtfulness

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    infest

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers
    • Insects are infesting my basement!
  • (pathology, of a parasite) To invade a host plant or animal

    • Synonyms

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) mischievous; hurtful; harassing
    • (Spenser)

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