Difference between Hurtful and Unkind

What is the difference between Hurtful and Unkind?

Hurtful as an adjective is tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; causing pain or suffering. while Unkind as an adjective is having no race or kindred; childless.

Hurtful

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; causing pain or suffering.

Example sentence: The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

Unkind

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having no race or kindred; childless.Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.

Example sentence: In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.

We hope you now know whether to use Hurtful or Unkind in your sentence.

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