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Hurting vs Hurtful - What's the difference?

hurting | hurtful |

As a verb hurting

is .

As a noun hurting

is a sensation that hurts.

As an adjective hurtful is

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

hurting

English

Verb

(wikipedia hurting) (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that hurts.
  • * 1997 , Michael Tye, Ten Problems of Consciousness
    • Surely, it may be urged, no one else can be the subject of my very hurtings or my very itchings. Other people can hurt or itch in the same way

    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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