Synonyms for hurt
- verb
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Injure — to cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury
injure, harm, damage, wound, do ill, mischief, maul, disadvantage, harrow, grieve dated, prejudice dated, scathe dated UK, mayhem dated, dere dated UK, damnify dated
2. Pain — to be painful
pain IN, suffer, anguish, irritate, sting, afflict, smart, torment, prick, torture, agonize, agonise UK, passion, pang, rack, wark UK, ache formal rare, wring dated UK, aggrieve rare, excruciate rare
3. Offend — to cause (somebody) emotional pain
offend, bruise, abuse, spite, violate, affront, born, misuse dated
4. Cripple — to damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede
cripple, impair, weaken, mar, undermine, worsen, handicap, thwart
Other
Adjective
1. Injured — wounded, physically injured
injured, wounded, damaged, cut, banged up informal, crocked UK, gimped rare, imbrued dated
Other
Noun
1. Embarrassment — an emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience
Other
detriment, distress, hurtle formal, whortleberry rare
Definitions
- v. 1
To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.
- v. 2
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
- adj. 1
Wounded, physically injured.
- n. 1
An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
how to overcome old hurts of the past
Forms
- Plural
- hurts → embarrassments, ignominies, injuries, traumas…
Choose the right word
A hurt is an injury that causes pain, physical or mental; a slight hurt may be no real harm.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- damage The explosion did a lot of damage to the building.
- harm This kind of magazine can do harm to young people.
- wound He cleansed the wound before putting on a bandage.
- injure You have to be careful so as not to injure yourself.
- suffer The love that I suffer from is a shameful disease.
- anguish The source of my anguish is your lack of loyalty.
By length
- 3 letters
- cut1, mar1
- 4 letters
- born1, pain1, harm1, sore1, rack1, ache1, pang1, maul1, dere, wark1
- 5 letters
- smart1, abuse2, wound1, spite1, sting1, prick1, wring1
- 6 letters
- damage2, injury3, suffer2, trauma2, offend2, mayhem2, misuse2, weaken2, injure2, grieve1, aching2, bruise1, harrow2, worsen2
- 7 letters
- injured2, passion2, damaged2, wounded2, torture2, violate3, anguish2, torment2, bruised1, cripple2, affront2, afflict2, agonize3, crocked
- 8 letters
- distress2, weakened2, handicap3, mischief2, irritate3, ignominy4, aggrieve2
- 9 letters
- suffering3, prejudice3, undermine3, detriment3, tormented3
- 10 letters
- excruciate
- 12 letters
- disadvantage4, whortleberry
- 13 letters
- embarrassment4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (abuse2 = 2 syllables).