hurtful

Word family  noun hurt hurtfulness adjective hurt ≠ unhurt hurtful verb hurt adverb hurtfully

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++hurt·ful /ˈhɜːtfəl $ ˈhɜːrt-/ ●○○ adjective  UPSETmaking you feel very upset or offended 〔感情上〕伤害人的，冒犯人的 SYN unkindhurtful remark/comment etc 刻薄的话/评论等► see thesaurus at unkind —hurtfully adverb —hurtfulness noun [uncountable]

Examples from the Corpus

hurtful• Sufferers from Parkinson's disease are many, and their problems are hateful and hurtful.• Mrs Browning was as aware of this as Wilson and indeed appeared to find nothing hurtful in mentioning it.• This deliberate emphasis on the young people's unreliable and hurtful past relationships poses a dilemma for residential workers.• a hurtful remark• It was coming out too bound up in hurtful things.• Television plays hurtful tricks on people who watch it long enough.• That was very brutal and hurtful when I felt down.• It's hurtful when you see good actors out of work and the way in which their confidence is corroded by the system.• There was nothing remotely subversive about it, as far as I could see: hurtful, yes, but not subversive.hurtful remark/comment etc• No more hurtful comments about people's looks.

hurt·ful adjectiveChineseSyllable  

upset you very feel or Corpus offended making

hurtful
hurt‧ful /ˈhɜːtfəl $ ˈhɜːrt-/ adjectivemaking you feel very upset or offended
   SYN  unkind
    hurtful remark/comment etc
—hurtfully adverb
—hurtfulness noun [uncountable]
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ unkind treating people in a way that makes them unhappy or upset. Unkind sounds rather formal. In everyday English, people usually say mean or nasty: Children can be very unkind to each other. | a rather unkind remark
   ▪ mean especially spoken unkind: Don’t be mean to your sister! | It was a mean thing to do.
   ▪ nasty deliberately unkind, and seeming to enjoy making people unhappy: He said some really nasty things before he left. | a nasty man
   ▪ hurtful unkind – used about remarks and actions: Joe couldn’t forget the hurtful things she had said. | Couples sometimes do hurtful things to each other.
   ▪ spiteful deliberately unkind to someone because you are jealous of them or angry with them: The other women were spiteful to her, and gave her the hardest work to do. | She watched them with spiteful glee (=pleasure).
   ▪ malicious deliberately behaving in a way that is likely to upset, hurt, or cause problems for someone: Someone had been spreading malicious rumours about him. | There was a malicious smile on her face. | an act of malicious vandalism | The accusations are malicious.
   ▪ unsympathetic not seeming to care about someone’s problems, and not trying to help them or make them feel better: Her parents were very unsympathetic, and told her that she deserved to fail her exam. | an unsympathetic boss
   ▪ hard-hearted very unsympathetic and not caring at all about other people’s feelings: Was he hard-hearted enough to leave his son in jail overnight? | a hard-hearted businessman

hurt·fulBrE /ˈhɜːtfl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhɜːrtfl/ 🔊 adjective(of comments 评论) making you feel upset and offended 伤感情的；伤害自尊的 SYN unkind ◆I cannot forget the hurtful things he said. 我无法忘记他说的那些伤感情的话。🔊🔊◆~ to sb The bad reviews of her new book were very hurtful to her. 对她的新书的负面评论使她很难过。🔊🔊▸ hurt·ful·ly BrE /ˈhɜːtfəli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhɜːrtfəli/ 🔊 adverb◆He said, rather hurtfully, that he had better things to do than come and see me. 他相当刻薄地说来看我还不如去干别的事。🔊🔊