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crueler

Meaning of crueler

adjective, comparative adjective
  1. wilfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it.
    people who are cruel to animals
    a cruel remark

Middle English: via Old French from Latin crudelis, related to crudus (see crude).

Information about crueler

  • It is an adjective.

Hyphenation of crueler

cru-eler

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 letters.
  • crueler is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

crueler synonyms

Meaning savagely violent:

brutal

Meaning cruel and vicious; aggressively hostile:

savage

Meaning lacking human qualities of compassion and mercy; cruel and barbaric:

inhuman

Meaning savagely cruel:

barbaric

Meaning extremely brutal:

barbarous

Meaning resembling or characteristic of a brute:

brutish

Meaning having or showing a desire to kill and maim:

bloodthirsty

Meaning capable of or intending to murder; dangerously violent:

murderous

Meaning capable of or tending towards murder; murderous:

homicidal

Meaning deliberately cruel or violent:

vicious

Meaning savagely fierce, cruel, or violent:

ferocious

Meaning having or displaying an intense or ferocious aggressiveness:

fierce

Meaning evil or morally wrong:

wicked

Meaning profoundly immoral and wicked:

evil

Meaning extremely cruel or unpleasant:

fiendish

Meaning like or appropriate to a devil in evil and cruelty:

devilish

Meaning characteristic of the Devil, or so evil as to be suggestive of the Devil:

diabolical

Meaning (of a person or wrongful act, especially a crime) utterly odious or wicked:

heinous

Meaning causing moral revulsion:

abominable

Meaning inhumanly or outrageously evil or wrong:

monstrous

Meaning horrifyingly wicked:

atrocious

Meaning extremely unpleasant:

vile

Meaning extremely ugly:

hideous

Meaning causing great horror or fear:

ghastly

Meaning behaving in an unpleasant or spiteful way:

nasty

Meaning showing or caused by malice:

spiteful

Meaning intend to convey or refer to (a particular thing); signify:

mean

Meaning showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others:

callous

Meaning deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others:

sadistic

Meaning having or showing no pity or compassion for others:

ruthless

Meaning showing no mercy:

merciless

Meaning cruel or harsh; showing no mercy:

unmerciful

Meaning showing no pity; cruel:

pitiless

Meaning merciless; severe:

unsparing

Meaning not yielding in strength, severity, or determination:

unrelenting

Meaning without regret or guilt:

remorseless

Meaning not displaying sympathy or concern for others:

uncaring

Meaning not feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy:

unsympathetic

Meaning (of a person's behaviour or attitude towards others) unkind; unsympathetic:

uncharitable

Meaning displaying a complete lack of feeling or consideration:

heartless

Meaning (of a person) cold or ruthless:

bloodless

Meaning unsympathetic, harsh, or callous:

unfeeling

Meaning not having or showing strong feelings:

unemotional

Meaning inconsiderate and harsh to others:

unkind

Meaning without compassion for misery or suffering; cruel:

inhumane

Meaning (of punishment of a person) strict or harsh:

severe

Meaning unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses:

harsh

Meaning (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline:

stern

Meaning (of the weather) unpleasantly cold or wet:

inclement

Meaning of, containing, or reminiscent of flint:

flinty

Meaning (of laws or their application) excessively harsh and severe:

draconian

Meaning unkind; malicious:

beastly

Meaning wicked and cruel:

dastardly

Meaning involving or causing much bloodshed:

sanguinary

crueler antonyms

Meaning feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others:

compassionate

Meaning showing or exercising mercy:

merciful