Hurtful
['hɜːtfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['hɝtfl]
Definition
(a.) Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.
Edited by Darrell
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Injurious, detrimental, mischievous, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, baneful, prejudicial, disadvantageous, harmful, baleful.
Editor: Wendell
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mischievous, injurious, pernicious, baleful, deleterious, baneful, noxious,detrimental, prejudicial,[See PERNICIOUS]
Editor: Omar
Examples
- How hurtful soever in themselves, these, or some other restraints upon importation, became necessary in consequence of that regulation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Unjust, however, as such prohibitions may be, they have not hitherto been very hurtful to the colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They remonstrated, therefore, against this prohibition as hurtful to trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In a different state of things it might have been advantageous to the sovereign and hurtful to the landlord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is, in most cases, therefore, hurtful to the landlord; it is frequently hurtful to the tenant; and it is always hurtful to the community. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Such rents are always more hurtful to the tenant than beneficial to the landlord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The former are always and necessarily beneficial; the latter always and necessarily hurtful. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And that which is not hurtful hurts not? Plato. The Republic.
- Use no hurtful deceit: think innocently and justly: and, if you speak, speak accordingly. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And no good thing is hurtful? Plato. The Republic.
- The good qualities of an enemy are hurtful to us; but may still command our esteem and respect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This inequality is, upon the whole, perhaps rather advantageous than hurtful to the public. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A farmer's is a very healthy happy life; and the least hurtful, or rather the most beneficial profession of any. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Editor: Omar