'Cruel' definitions:
Definition of 'cruel'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Cruel'
From: GCIDE
- Cruel \Cru"el\ (kr[udd]"[e^]l), a. [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. [1913 Webster]
- Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy. --Jer. vi. 22,23. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery. [1913 Webster]
- Cruel wars, wasting the earth. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was cruel. --Gen. xlix. 7. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh. [1913 Webster]
- You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cruel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acute,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- animal,
- anthropophagous,
- atrocious,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- beastly,
- bestial,
- biting,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bowelless,
- brutal,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- callous,
- cannibalistic,
- cold-blooded,
- cramping,
- cruel-hearted,
- cruise,
- cutthroat,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- diabolical,
- distressing,
- dog-eat-dog,
- Draconian,
- excruciating,
- fare,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- flinty,
- gnawing,
- go,
- gory,
- grave,
- grim,
- griping,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heartless,
- heinous,
- hellish,
- hie,
- homicidal,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- implacable,
- inclement,
- inexorable,
- infernal,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- journey,
- merciless,
- monstrous,
- murderous,
- outrageous,
- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- pass,
- piercing,
- pitiless,
- poignant,
- proceed,
- pungent,
- push on,
- racking,
- red-handed,
- relentless,
- remorseless,
- repair,
- ruthless,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- self-destructive,
- severe,
- sharkish,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- slaughterous,
- slavering,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- subhuman,
- suicidal,
- Tartarean,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- travel,
- truculent,
- unchristian,
- uncivilized,
- uncompassionate,
- uncompassioned,
- unfeeling,
- unforgiving,
- unhuman,
- unkind,
- unmerciful,
- unpitiful,
- unpitying,
- unremorseful,
- unsparing,
- unsympathetic,
- unsympathizing,
- unyielding,
- vicious,
- wend,
- without mercy,
- wolfish