Cruel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Disposed to inflict pain or suffering.
  • adj. Causing suffering; painful.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not nice; mean; heartless.
  • adj. Cool; awesome; neat.
  • v. To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See crewel.
  • adj. 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.
  • adj. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
  • adj. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Disposed to inflict suffering, physical or mental; indifferent to or taking pleasure in the pain or distress of any sentient being; willing or pleased to torment, vex, or afflict; destitute of pity, compassion, or kindness; hard-hearted; pitiless.
  • Proceeding from or exhibiting indifference to or pleasure in the suffering of others; causing pain, grief, or distress; performed or exerted in tormenting, vexing, or afflicting: as, a cruel act; a cruel disposition; the cruel treatment of animals.
  • Synonyms Barbarous, savage, ferocious, brutal, merciless, unmerciful, pitiless, unfeeling, fell, ruthless, truculent, bloodthirsty, inexorable, unrelenting.
  • Very; extremely.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  • Equivalent
    inhumane   
    Variant
    crewel   
    Form
    cruelly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    savage    inhuman    hard-hearted    merciless    painful    harsh    severe    sharp    hard    unfavorable   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abdul    Boole    Dzhambul    Ewell    Greuel    Istanbul    Jewel    Joule    Poole    Rahul   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    terrible    wicked    thy    savage    unjust    proud