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Hurtful vs Wounding - What's the difference?

hurtful | wounding |

As an adjective hurtful

is tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.

As a noun wounding is

the act of inflicting a wound.

As a verb wounding is

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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

    References

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    Anagrams

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    wounding

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of inflicting a wound.

    • Verb

    (head)