Pejorative vs Hurt - What's the difference?
pejorative | hurt |
To be painful.
To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
To undermine, impede, or damage.
An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
* How to overcome old hurts of the past
(archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
* 1605 , Shakespeare, King Lear vii
* John Locke
(archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
* Shakespeare
(heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
(engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
A husk.
As adjectives the difference between pejorative and hurt
is that pejorative is disparaging, belittling or derogatory while hurt is wounded, physically injured.As nouns the difference between pejorative and hurt
is that pejorative is a disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression while hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience.As a verb hurt is
to be painful.pejorative
English
(wikipedia pejorative)Synonyms
* derogatory * dyslogisticAntonyms
* approbative * eulogistic * meliorativeSynonyms
* dyslogism * dysphemismAntonyms
* eulogismSee also
*References
*hurt
English
Verb
- Does your leg still hurt ? / It is starting to feel better.
- If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
- This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.
Synonyms
* wound, injureDerived terms
* wouldn't hurt a flySee also
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- I have received a hurt .
- The pains of sickness and hurts all men feel.
- Thou dost me yet but little hurt .
