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Intimidating vs Hurtful - What's the difference?

intimidating | hurtful |

As adjectives the difference between intimidating and hurtful

is that intimidating is threatening while hurtful is tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.

As a verb intimidating

is .

intimidating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • threatening

    • 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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