hurtsome

comparative more hurtsome · superlative most hurtsome · alternative Northern England hortsome

1. Characterised or marked by hurt; causing injury or pain; injurious.

   In school, being wrong had a way of cutting my brain, the like way a stem of a fan palm could cut a hand. It was hurtsome.

   2013, Robert Newton Peck, Arly

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   [...] and namely, for the tedious length of the same, which should weary and be hurtsome peradventure to the King's Majesty, being yet of tender Age, fully to endure and bide out.

   1816, Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.), A history of the reformation of the Church of England

   Such and thousands more are the joysome architectures of nature in contrast to the hurtsome ones of man, but in the last instance they bring us back to the reality that much can be done by combining the forces of nature and those of man.

   1972, Nicholas Polunin, The Environmental Future

   Synonyms: harmful, hurtful