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1. (adj.) cruel
willfully causing pain or distress to others.
2. cruel
enjoying the pain or distress of others.
3. cruel
causing or marked by great pain or distress.
4. cruel
unrelentingly severe; merciless; brutal.
Etymology: (1175–1225; ME < AF, OF < L crūdēlis=crūd(us) (see crude ) +-ēlis adj. suffix)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
(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"
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1. (adjective) cruel
≠kind
a cruel man; people who are cruel to their pets
2. cruel
causing suffering
Life can be cruel.; He treated his children cruelly.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) cruel
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
2. (adj) cruel
causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery
3. (adj) cruel
attended with cruetly; painful; harsh
4. (noun) cruel
see Crewel
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Sense: pleased at causing pain; merciless
He was cruel to his dog.
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 Afrikaans: wreed |
 Arabic: قاسي القَلب، عَديم الرّحْ |
 Bulgarian: мъчителен |
 Brazilian: cruel |
 Czech: krutý, surový |
 German: grausam |
 Danish: grusom; ond |
 Greek: σκληρός, σαδιστικός |
 Spanish: cruel |
 Estonian: julm |
 Farsi: سنگدل؛ بی رحم |
 Finnish: julma |
 French: cruel (envers) |
 Hebrew: אָכזָרִי |
 Hindi: निर्दयी |
 Croatian: grub |
 Hungarian: kegyetlen |
 Indonesian: kejam |
 Icelandic: miskunnarlaus; grimmur |
 Italian: crudele |
 Japanese: 残酷な |
 Korean: 자인한 |
 Lithuanian: negailestingas,žiaurus |
 Latvian: cietsirdīgs; nežēlīgs |
 Malay: kejam |
 Dutch: wreed |
 Norwegian: grusom, grufull; nådeløs |
 Polish: okrutny |
 Persian: سنگدل؛ بی رحم |
 Pashto: بی رحم ، د تیږی په شان کل |
 Portuguese: cruel |
 Romanian: crud (cu) |
 Russian: жестокий |
 Slovak: krutý |
 Slovenian: krut |
 Serbian: okrutan |
 Swedish: grym |
 Thai: โหดร้าย |
 Turkish: acımasız, zalim |
 Taiwanese: 殘酷的 |
 Ukrainian: жорстокий |
 Urdu: بے رحم، ظالم |
 Vietnamese: độc ác |
 Chinese: 残酷的 |
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