meaning of cruel
1. See Crewel.
2. 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.
3. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
4. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
5. 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
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Related Words
cruel | cruel and unusual punishment | cruel plant | cruelly | cruelness | cruels | cruelties | cruelty |
