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hurtful, a.|ˈhɜːtfʊl|
[f. hurt n.1 + -ful.]
Having the quality of causing hurt or injury; harmful, injurious, detrimental, prejudicial, pernicious, mischievous, noxious, noisome.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de. W. 1531) 150 b, The beestes..not noysom or hurtfull. 1563W. Fulke Meteors (1640) 27 b, The most dangerous, violent and hurtfull kind of lightning is called Fulmen. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1589) 62 Thales called vice the hurtfullest thing in the world, bicause that..it marreth and destroieth all. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxviii. 162 To certain actions, there be annexed by Nature, divers hurtful consequences. 1718Freethinker No. 87 ⁋5 It is..Advantageous to Many, and Hurtful to None. 1862Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xvii. 272 note, The vulgar and hurtful error of considering the Church as a corporation. |