About The Word Cruel
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Cruel Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Cruel?
[adj] (of circumstances; especially weather) causing suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters"
[adj] lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy [adj] (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [adj] (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war" Synonyms | Synonyms for Cruel: barbarous | brutal | fell | hard | harsh | heartless | inhumane | rigorous | roughshod | savage | unkind | vicious Related Terms | Find terms related to Cruel: acute | afflictive | agonizing | animal | anthropophagous | atrocious | barbaric | barbarous | beastly | bestial | biting | bloodthirsty | bloody | bloody-minded | bowelless | brutal | brutalized | brute | brutish | callous | cannibalistic | cold-blooded | cramping | cruel-hearted | cruise | cutthroat | demoniac | demoniacal | devilish | diabolic | diabolical | distressing | dog-eat-dog | Draconian | excruciating | fare | fell | feral | ferocious | fiendish | fiendlike | fierce | flinty | gnawing | go | gory | grave | grim | griping | hard | harrowing | harsh | heartless | heinous | hellish | hie | homicidal | hurtful | hurting | implacable | inclement | inexorable | infernal | inhuman | inhumane | journey | merciless | monstrous | murderous | outrageous | painful | paroxysmal | pass | piercing | pitiless | poignant | proceed | pungent | push on | racking | red-handed | relentless | remorseless | repair | ruthless | sadistic | sanguinary | sanguineous | satanic | savage | self-destructive | severe | sharkish | sharp | shooting | slaughterous | slavering | spasmatic | spasmic | spasmodic | stabbing | stinging | subhuman | suicidal | Tartarean | tormenting | torturous | travel | truculent | unchristian | uncivilized | uncompassionate | uncompassioned | unfeeling | unforgiving | unhuman | unkind | unmerciful | unpitiful | unpitying | unremorseful | unsparing | unsympathetic | unsympathizing | unyielding | vicious | wend | without mercy | wolfish See Also | Cruel In Webster's Dictionary \Cru"el\ (kr[udd]"[e^]l), n.
See {Crewel}.
\Cru"el\ (kr[udd]"[e^]l), a. [F. cruel, fr. L. crudelis, fr. crudus. See {Crude}.] 1. Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless. Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy. --Jer. vi. 22,23. 2. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery. Cruel wars, wasting the earth. --Milton. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was cruel. --Gen. xlix. 7. 3. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh. You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength. --Shak. |
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