Definitions for hurtful

hurtful hurt·ful

Spelling: [hurt-fuh l]
IPA: /ˈhɜrt fəl/

Hurtful is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in hurtful (fhlrtuu).

Definitions for hurtful

adjective

  1. causing hurt or injury; injurious; harmful.

Origin of hurtful

First recorded in 1520-30; hurt + -ful

Examples for hurtful

Are they not profitable when they are rightly used, and hurtful when they are not rightly used?

They don't understand how hurtful it is to see my father dragged out of the wreckage...No one should see my father this way.

“Amendment 1” seems to protect bullying on social media and insensitive and hurtful speech as well.

It can be hurtful to none, said Luther, to acknowledge and confess their sins.

Jakes is not alone in believing that your family must stay your family no matter how hurtful or dysfunctional they may be.

But the lover is not only hurtful to his love; he is also an extremely disagreeable companion.

Twenty years after the phrase entered the American lexicon, “Soccer Mom” retains its power as hurtful speech.

Even their prayers are hurtful to him, until he have made his own.

Or may we suppose that hunger will remain while men and animals remain, but not so as to be hurtful?

Some of it is completely silly and some of it is meant to be hurtful.

Word Value for hurtful
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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