| Main Entry: | hurtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, cruel |
Synonyms: |
aching, afflictive, bad, cutting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, distressing, evil, harmful, hurting, malicious, mean, mischievous, nasty, nocuous, noxious, ominous, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, spiteful, unkind, upsetting, wounding |
Antonyms: |
aiding, assisting, harmless, helpful, helping, kind, nice, relieving |
| Main Entry: | abrasive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritating in manner |
Synonyms: |
annoying, biting, caustic, cutting, galling, hard to take, hateful, hurtful, nasty, rough, rubbing the wrong way, sharp, spiky, unpleasant |
Antonyms: |
likeable, pleasant, pleasing |
| Main Entry: | acid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bitter in words or behavior |
Synonyms: |
acerbic, biting, caustic, cutting, dry, harsh, hateful, hurtful, mordant, nasty, offensive, sarcastic, sharp, stinging, trenchant, vitriolic |
Antonyms: |
kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmful |
Synonyms: |
damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, hurtful, injurious, ruinous, unhealthy |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
Antonyms: |
advantageous, beneficial, benevolent, good, honest, profitable, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | baleful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing |
Synonyms: |
calamitous, deadly, dire, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malevolent, malignant, noxious, ominous, pernicious, ruinous, sinister, threatening, venomous, vindictive, woeful |
Antonyms: |
advantageous, auspicious, favorable, good, helping, promising |
| Main Entry: | baneful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ruinous, injurious |
Synonyms: |
baleful, calamitous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, disastrous, evil, fatal, harmful, hurtful, malefic, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous, wicked |
Antonyms: |
advantageous, beneficial, beneficient, fortunate, helpful, lucky |
| Main Entry: | bitter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful, distressing |
Synonyms: |
afflictive, annoying, bad, brutal, calamitous, cruel, dire, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, disturbing, galling, grievous, hard, harsh, heartbreaking, hurtful, inclement, intemperate, intense, merciless, offensive, poignant, provoking, rigorous, rugged, ruthless, savage, severe, sharp, stinging, unpalatable, unpleasant, vexatious, woeful |
Antonyms: |
good, helping, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | cutting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, hateful |
Synonyms: |
acerbic, acid, acrimonious, barbed, biting, bitter, caustic, clear-cut, crisp, hurtful, incisive, ingoing, malicious, penetrating, piercing, pointed, probing, raw, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, severe, sharp, stinging, trenchant, wounding |
Antonyms: |
kind, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | deleterious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmful, damaging |
Synonyms: |
bad, destroying, destructive, detrimental, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, prejudicious, ruining, ruinous |
Antonyms: |
aiding, assisting, helpful |
| Main Entry: | destructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, devastating |
Synonyms: |
annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, cutthroat, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, disastrous, eradicative, evil, extirpative, fatal, fell, harmful, hurtful, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, ruinous, slaughterous, suicidal, toxic, venomous, wrackful, wreckful |
Antonyms: |
aiding, assisting, building, creative, helpful, productive |