wounding
- adjective
- /ˈwuːndɪŋ/
:
doloroso
- After their argument, he realized the wounding comments had hurt her feelings.
And so so our sympathy for her is that it's it's wounding behavior that you can't help.
- And so so our sympathy for her is that it's it's wounding behavior that you can't help.
- Professor Parrots himself has recognized what he called the wild and wounding nature of his words.
- And it was very, very unsettling because I, I, I found it, you know, both wounding and also destabilizing.
Examples
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And it was very, very unsettling because I, I, I found it, you know, both wounding and also destabilizing.
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Now, that was quite a wounding thing for a Prime Minister to say about a party that I LED.
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So that was a moment of wounding for him.
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So that was a moment of wounding for him.
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That's a huge piece that has been such a big part of my wounding through life has been thinking there's something wrong with me.
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People tend to be drawn to each other because they're similar wounding, even though they tend to show it differently.
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The I'm not saying women, by the way, are immune to these kinds of ego woundings because I think it happens on both sides.
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Because subconsciously there's this wounding and A and a lack of deservability and it's unconscious.
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The sudden criticism felt wounding, leaving her emotionally shaken.
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His wounding words about her performance affected her confidence deeply.
Synonyms
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1.0
Making someone feel physical hurt or strong emotional upset
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3.1
Likely to cause harm to a person or to their things
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6.3
Causing strong emotional pain and making you feel upset
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Causing harm to living things like people or animals
Causing long-lasting physical or emotional harm
Very hurtful in words, or sharply cold in weather
Antonyms
How Hurtful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wounding comes from wound, which means 'injury' or 'cut'. A helpful image is to think of a sharp word that 'cuts' a person inside, so a wounding remark causes emotional pain.