Cruel
[krʊəl] or ['kruəl]
Definition
(n.) See Crewel.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
(a.) Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
Checker: Roberta
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unmerciful, inhuman, merciless, unfeeling, uncompassionate, fell, ruthless, barbarous, pitiless, relentless, unrelenting, inexorable, savage, ferocious, brutal, sanguinary, truculent, blood-thirsty, hard-hearted.[2]. Severe, hard, sharp, bitter.
Checked by Gerald
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Savage, barbarous, pittiless, inexorable, unrelenting, ruthless, truculent,hard-hearted, harsh, unmerciful, brutal, inhuman, maleficent, malignant
ANT:Humane, forbearing, generous, merciful, forgiving, benevolent, beneficent
Editor: Margie
Definition
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.
Typist: Stanley
Examples
- I never will do a cruel thing, come what may. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- His mother will have said all those cruel things about me to him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Legree, like most godless and cruel men, was superstitious. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I now say, Thank God she did not live to witness the cruel, miserable death of her youngest darling! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I am sure you had no share in it, or in the cruel suspicions of Mr. Osborne, which are the hardest of all our griefs to bear. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I think so, Mas'r, said Tom; the poor crittur's sick and feeble; 't would be downright cruel, and it's what I never will do, nor begin to. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- To save her from misconstruction, cruel misconstruction, that even my friends have not been able to avoid, becomes my duty. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The cruellest looks could not have wounded him more than that glance of hopeless kindness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Not the cruellest scoffer of them all could doubt now. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I ha' fell into a pit that ha' been wi' th' Firedamp crueller than battle. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was the cruelest exhibition--the most wanton, the most unfeeling. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Checked by Leda