hurtful

hurtful
    adj 1: causing hurt; "her hurtful unconsidered words"
    2: harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
       [syn: {deleterious}, {hurtful}, {injurious}]
    

Hurtful \Hurt"ful\, a.
   Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous;
   occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.

   Syn: Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental;
        disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious;
        unwholesome; destructive. -- {Hurt"ful*ly}, adv. --
        {Hurt"ful*ness}, n.
        [1913 Webster]
    

75 Moby Thesaurus words for "hurtful":
      acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, baleful, baneful, biting,
      corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive,
      cramping, cruel, cutting, damaging, deadly, deleterious,
      destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disserviceable,
      distressing, excruciating, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harmful,
      harrowing, harsh, hurting, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent,
      malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous, nasty, noisome,
      noxious, ominous, painful, paroxysmal, pernicious, piercing,
      poignant, poisonous, prejudicial, pungent, racking, scatheful,
      severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spiteful,
      stabbing, stinging, tormenting, torturous, toxic, unkind, venenate,
      veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wounding