cruel

adj., -el·er, or -el·ler, -el·est, or -el·lest.

1. Disposed to inflict pain or suffering.
2. Causing suffering; painful.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin crūdēlis.]

cruelly cru'el·ly adv.
cruelness cru'el·ness n.

SYNONYMS   cruel, fierce, ferocious, barbarous, inhuman, savage, vicious. These adjectives mean predisposed to inflict violence, pain, or hardship, or to find satisfaction in the suffering of others: a cruel tyrant; a fierce warrior; a ferocious attack dog; a barbarous crime; inhuman treatment of captured soldiers; a savage outburst of temper; a vicious kick.

adjective

1. Showing or suggesting a disposition to be violently destructive without scruple or restraint: barbarous, bestial, fell, feral, ferocious, fierce, inhuman, savage, truculent, vicious, wolfish. See kind/cruel.
2. So intense as to cause extreme suffering: ferocious, fierce, savage, vicious. See help/harm/harmless, kind/cruel.

adj

Definition: vicious, pitiless; causing pain
Antonyms: charitable, compassionate, considerate, feeling, gentle, kind, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, uncruel

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IN BRIEF: Causing pain and suffering.

Water is a good servant, but it is a cruel master. — John Bullein.

Tutor's tip: Making her embroider with that "crewel" (thin piece of yarn used in embroidery) day after day is "cruel" (causing intense suffering or damage).

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - grusom, forfærdelig
v. tr. - ødelægge

Nederlands (Dutch)
wreed

Français (French)
adj. - cruel, rigoureux
v. tr. - châtier

Deutsch (German)
adj. - grausam, unbarmherzig
v. - eine Erfolgsmöglichkeit ruinieren

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - σκληρός, απάνθρωπος, άσπλαχνος

Italiano (Italian)
crudele

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - cruel

Русский (Russian)
жестокий

Español (Spanish)
adj. - cruel
v. tr. - ser cruel con

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - grym, blodtörstig, blodig, elak, gräslig (vard.)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
残酷的, 悲惨的, 搞糟, 使没有可能成功

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 殘酷的, 悲慘的
v. tr. - 搞糟, 使沒有可能成功

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 잔인한, 참혹한
v. tr. - 엉망으로 만들다

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 残酷な, 無慈悲な, つらい, むごい

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) قاسي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮אכזרי‬
v. tr. - ‮סיכל, התנגד ל-‬

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