cruel

Speech parts

1. cruel - Noun

2. cruel - Adjective

3. cruel - Verb

4. cruel - Adverb

5. cruel - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

See Crewel.

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.

Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

savage brutal vicious barbarous remorseless hard mean fell ruthless malicious oppressive ferocious nasty cold-blooded brutish
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Antonyms

clement virgin salah beneficent good humane
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Phrases with the word

goodbye, cruel world cruel person cruel treatment cruel woman cruel cycle cruel hoaxes

Anagrams

Curle lucre ulcer cluer

Examples

If people could realize that we are merely passing through this Earth... That we are guests here... That every meeting with an acquaintance or a friend could be the last, they would be more humble and less cruel. Source: Internet

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel. Che Guevara

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you are kind to the cruel, you will be cruel to the kind. Darkovan Proverb

Beginning cruel end good. Thai Proverb

Who is oily is also cruel. Estonian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

crudy crudzine crue cruel act cruel and unusual punishment cruel cycle