hurtful vs remedial

hurtful

adj
  • Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting. 

  • Tending to impair or damage; injurious; occasioning loss or injury. 

remedial

noun
  • A pupil enrolled in special classes to improve deficient skills. 

adj
  • intended to remediate (i.e., correct or improve) deficient skills in some subject 

  • curative; providing a remedy 

How often have the words hurtful and remedial occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )