Hurtful vs Perverse - What's the difference?
hurtful | perverse | Related terms |
Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
* 1649 : , Eikonoklastes
* 1890 : George Henry Rohé, Text-book of hygiene
Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting.
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Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary.
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, title= (legal, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
Hurtful is a related term of perverse.
As adjectives the difference between hurtful and perverse
is that hurtful is tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury while perverse is turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.hurtful
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Alternative forms
* hurtfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
- Well-cultivated soils are often healthy; nor at present has it been proved that the use of manure is hurtful .
Synonyms
* (tending to impair or damage) pernicious, harmful, baneful, prejudicial, detrimental, disadvantageous, mischievous, injurious, noxious, unwholesome, destructive; see alsoReferences
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*perverse
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Adjective
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