hurtsome

English

Alternative forms

• hortsome (Northern England)

Etymology

From hurt +‎ -some. Compare Scots hurtsome (“hurtful, injurious”).

Adjective

hurtsome (comparative more hurtsome, superlative most hurtsome)

1. Characterised or marked by hurt; causing injury or pain; injurious.
   • 1816, Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.), A history of the reformation of the Church of England:

     [...] 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.

   • 1972, Nicholas Polunin, The Environmental Future:

     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.

   • 2013, Robert Newton Peck, Arly:

     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.

Synonyms

• harmful
• hurtful

See also

• painsome

Anagrams

• Thomures, mouthers