What does cruel mean?
Definitions for cruel
ˈkru əlcru·el
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word cruel.
Princeton's WordNet
barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious(adj)
(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"
Wiktionary
cruel(Verb)
To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
cruel(Adjective)
Not nice; mean; heartless.
The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.
cruel(Adjective)
Cool; awesome; neat.
Webster Dictionary
Cruel(noun)
see Crewel
Etymology: [F. cruel, fr. L. crudelis, fr. crudus. See Crude.]
Cruel(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
Etymology: [F. cruel, fr. L. crudelis, fr. crudus. See Crude.]
Cruel(adj)
causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery
Etymology: [F. cruel, fr. L. crudelis, fr. crudus. See Crude.]
Cruel(adj)
attended with cruetly; painful; harsh
Etymology: [F. cruel, fr. L. crudelis, fr. crudus. See Crude.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Cruel
krōō′el, adj. disposed to inflict pain, or pleased at suffering: void of pity, merciless, savage: severe.—adj. Cru′el-heart′ed, delighting in cruelty: hard-hearted: unrelenting.—adv. Cru′elly.—ns. Cru′elness (obs.); Cru′elty. [Fr. cruel—L. crudelis.]
British National Corpus
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'cruel' in Adjectives Frequency: #780
Anagrams for cruel »
lucre
ulcer
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cruel in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cruel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of cruel in a Sentence
The death penalty is an inherently cruel and irreversible punishment in all circumstances, it's particularly egregious to execute defendants sentenced in Gaza, whose court system is rife with coercion, torture and compromised procedures.
It is every parents nightmare to lose a child. Its been a heavy and black night in Malmo, weve been in this situation before with similar events. This is what the police have warned about, namely an escalation of cruel and reckless violence in Malmo.
Separating kids is unacceptable – but indefinite imprisonment of families is still cruel inhumane.
Lest there be any doubt, we hold that our state constitutions prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, article I, section 17,5 does not require a unanimous jury recommendation or any jury recommendation before a death sentence can be imposed, the court said. That ruling has placed the fate of those death row inmates navigating the resentencing process into the realm of uncertainty. There is a growing fear among experts that some of those death row inmates will have their death penalties reinstated. An execution chamber used in Florida. (Florida Department of Corrections) The question here now is going to be, What about the people that have already been told they are entitled to a resentencing hearing? can you take that away from them? Can you retroactively pull the rug out and reinsert the death penalty? Brunvand toldFox News that a motion has already been filed to reinstate the death penalty for his client. He thinks thats an injustice. I cannot imagine having been sentenced to death, having received word from the Supreme Court that the scheme is unconstitutional and youre going to get a new trial, to have lawyers start preparing for trial and then all of the sudden face the prospect that Oh, we might just send you back to death row. I cant imagine.
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.
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- wreedaardigAfrikaans
- قاسيArabic
- жорсткіBelarusian
- жестокBulgarian
- cruelCatalan, Valencian
- krutýCzech
- creulonWelsh
- grusomDanish
- grausamGerman
- σκληρόςGreek
- kruelaEsperanto
- cruelSpanish
- julmEstonian
- ظالمPersian
- julmaFinnish
- grimmurFaroese
- cruelFrench
- wreedWestern Frisian
- cruálachIrish
- mì-chneasta, brùideil, neo-thruacanta, garg, neo-iochdmhor, cruadalach, borbScottish Gaelic
- cruelGalician
- אַכְזָרִי, אכזריתHebrew
- निर्दयी, ज़ालिमHindi
- kegyetlenHungarian
- դաժան, անգութArmenian
- cruelInterlingua
- kejamIndonesian
- vondur, grimmurIcelandic
- crudeleItalian
- 酷い, 惨い, 残酷Japanese
- სასტიკიGeorgian
- 잔인Korean
- zalim, bêrehmKurdish
- saevus, crudelisLatin
- negailestingas, žiaurusLithuanian
- nežēlīgsLatvian
- whakawiriwiriMāori
- хэрцгийMongolian
- kejamMalay
- gemene, wrede, gemeen, wreedDutch
- grusomNorwegian
- okrutnyPolish
- cruelPortuguese
- cumplit, crud, cruntRomanian
- жестокийRussian
- nȅčovečan, о̏крӯтан, не̏човјечан, ȍkrūtan, nȅčovječan, не̏човечанSerbo-Croatian
- krutýSlovak
- krutSlovene
- mizorAlbanian
- grymSwedish
- dhalimuSwahili
- క్రూరమైనTelugu
- โหดร้าย, โหด, ทารุณThai
- malupitTagalog
- zalimTurkish
- achchiqUyghur, Uighur
- жорстокийUkrainian
- ظالم, نردییUrdu
- độc ácVietnamese
- גרויזאםYiddish
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