cruel
Meaning of cruel
adjective
- wilfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it.
people who are cruel to animals
a cruel remark
- spoil or ruin (an opportunity or a chance of success).
Ernie nearly cruelled the whole thing by laughing
Middle English: via Old French from Latin crudelis, related to crudus (see crude).
Information about cruel
- The plural form of cruel is: cruels.
- Languages in which cruel is used:
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cruel
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- cruel is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
cruel synonyms
Meaning barbarous:
barbarous, brutal, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
Meaning brutal:
Meaning lacking human qualities of compassion and mercy; cruel and barbaric:
Meaning savagely cruel:
Meaning resembling or characteristic of a brute:
Meaning having or showing a desire to kill and maim:
Meaning capable of or intending to murder; dangerously violent:
Meaning capable of or tending towards murder; murderous:
Meaning savagely fierce, cruel, or violent:
Meaning having or displaying an intense or ferocious aggressiveness:
Meaning evil or morally wrong:
Meaning profoundly immoral and wicked:
Meaning extremely cruel or unpleasant:
Meaning like or appropriate to a devil in evil and cruelty:
Meaning characteristic of the Devil, or so evil as to be suggestive of the Devil:
Meaning (of a person or wrongful act, especially a crime) utterly odious or wicked:
Meaning causing moral revulsion:
Meaning inhumanly or outrageously evil or wrong:
Meaning horrifyingly wicked:
Meaning extremely unpleasant:
Meaning extremely ugly:
Meaning causing great horror or fear:
Meaning behaving in an unpleasant or spiteful way:
Meaning showing or caused by malice:
Meaning intend to convey or refer to (a particular thing); signify:
Meaning showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others:
Meaning deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others:
Meaning having or showing no pity or compassion for others:
Meaning showing no mercy:
Meaning cruel or harsh; showing no mercy:
Meaning showing no pity; cruel:
Meaning merciless; severe:
Meaning not yielding in strength, severity, or determination:
Meaning without regret or guilt:
Meaning not displaying sympathy or concern for others:
Meaning not feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy:
Meaning (of a person's behaviour or attitude towards others) unkind; unsympathetic:
Meaning displaying a complete lack of feeling or consideration:
Meaning (of a person) cold or ruthless:
Meaning unsympathetic, harsh, or callous:
Meaning not having or showing strong feelings:
Meaning inconsiderate and harsh to others:
Meaning without compassion for misery or suffering; cruel:
Meaning (of punishment of a person) strict or harsh:
Meaning unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses:
Meaning (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline:
Meaning (of the weather) unpleasantly cold or wet:
Meaning of, containing, or reminiscent of flint:
Meaning (of laws or their application) excessively harsh and severe:
Meaning unkind; malicious:
Meaning wicked and cruel:
Meaning involving or causing much bloodshed:
cruel antonyms
Meaning feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others:
Meaning showing or exercising mercy:
Translation of cruel
- French: cruel
- German: grausam
- Spanish: cruel, severo, penoso
- Italian: crudele, forte, penoso, severo
- Portuguese: cruel
Anagrams of cruel
Words that rhyme with cruel
Ruel, uncruel, Teruel, Pantagruel, gruel, pantagruel
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