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CRUEL
barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
(adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; āa barbarous crimeā; ābrutal beatingsā; ācruel torturesā; āStalinās roughshod treatment of the kulaksā; āa savage slapā; āvicious kicksā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
cruel (comparative crueler or crueller or more cruel, superlative most cruel)
Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
Synonym: sadistic
Antonym: merciful
Harsh; severe.
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Synonym: brutal
(slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
Adverb
cruel (not comparable)
(nonstandard) To a great degree; terribly.
Verb
cruel (third-person singular simple present cruels, present participle cruelling, simple past and past participle cruelled)
(chiefly, Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
(Australia, ambitransitive) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.
Etymology 2
Noun
cruel (countable and uncountable, plural cruels)
Alternative form of crewel
Anagrams
• lucre, ulcer
Source: Wiktionary
Cru"el (kr"l), n.
Definition: See Crewel.
Cru"el (kr*"l), a. Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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