Cruel \Cru"el\ (kr[udd]"[e^]l), n.
See Crewel.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . .
they are cruel and have no mercy. --Jer. vi.
22,23.
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2. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
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Cruel wars, wasting the earth. --Milton.
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Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their
wrath for it was cruel. --Gen. xlix.
7.
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3. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
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You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength.
--Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cruel
adj 1: lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy [syn: unkind]
2: (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" [syn: barbarous,
brutal, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious]
3: (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain;
"brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"
[syn: brutal]
4: used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause
suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be
cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous
climate"; "unkind winters" [syn: brutal, harsh, rigorous,
unkind]
WordNet (r) 2.0
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "cruel":
Draconian, Tartarean, 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,
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, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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