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hurtiest

hurtiest is the superlative form of hurty.

Meaning of hurty

Adjective (1)

hurty (comparative hurtier, superlative hurtiest)

  1. (childish, informal, often) Causing hurt; painful.
    • If people are scared of hurty words, don’t come and see comedy. It’s not as if I’m shouting it through your letterbox.2024 January 23, Pauline McLean, quoting Janey Godley, BBC News, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2024

Adjective (2)

hurty (not comparable)

  1. Semé (strewn) with hurts (roundels azure).

Questions about hurtiest

What is hurtiest the superlative form of?
Hurtiest is the superlative form of hurty.

Words near hurtiest in the dictionary

  1. hurtfull
  2. hurtfully
  3. hurtfulness
  4. hurtfulnesses
  5. hurtier
  6. hurtiest
  7. hurting
  8. hurting a fly
  9. hurting for
  10. hurting someone's feelings
  11. hurtingest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hurtiest (page history and authors); hurty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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