Hurtful vs Inimical - What's the difference?
hurtful | inimical | Related terms |
Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
* 1649 : , Eikonoklastes
* 1890 : George Henry Rohé, Text-book of hygiene
Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting.
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Harmful in effect.
Unfriendly, hostile.
Hurtful is a related term of inimical.
As adjectives the difference between hurtful and inimical
is that hurtful is tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury while inimical is harmful in effect.hurtful
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Alternative forms
* hurtfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
- Well-cultivated soils are often healthy; nor at present has it been proved that the use of manure is hurtful .
Synonyms
* (tending to impair or damage) pernicious, harmful, baneful, prejudicial, detrimental, disadvantageous, mischievous, injurious, noxious, unwholesome, destructive; see alsoReferences
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*inimical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Suicide is inimical to the health of the participant.
- Her inimical attitude precludes romance.