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Hurtful vs Perverse - What's the difference?

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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

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

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    perverse

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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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  • (legal, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
  • Derived terms

    * perversely * perverseness * perversity

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