cruel

Meaning

Adj

1. Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
2. Harsh; severe.
3. (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.

Adv

To a great degree; terribly.

Verb

1. To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
2. To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.

Noun

Alternative form of crewel

Synonyms

brutal

merciless

savage

heartless

ruthless

unkind

pitiless

harsh

fierce

inhuman

wicked

atrocious

severe

vicious

ferocious

barbarous

violent

oppressive

hard-hearted

miserable

unfeeling

bad

👎

tyrannical

hard

mean

grim

nasty

inhumane

callous

bloodthirsty

malicious

spiteful

bestial

evil

terrible

rude

barbaric

cold-hearted

fell

cold-blooded

sadistic

unmerciful

horrible

evil-minded

barbarian

fiendish

inconsiderate

awful

sudden

be brutal

rough

wild

stern

incisive

remorseless

strict

impersonal

tragic

truculent

iron

ugly

uncompassionate

irresponsible

unfortunate

unfriendly

unjust

lawless

filthy

brutish

mischievous

unsympathetic

monstrous

naughty

nauseating

vile

villainous

careless

destructive

beastly

be ill-natured

dirty

abominable

scorching heat

very bad

repugnant

harmful

bullying

roughshod

sad

☹️

heavy

be vicious

be violent

scathing

selfish

serious

disgusting

be bad-dispositioned

be bullying

envious

tigerish

tough

treacherous

troublesome

tyrannous

tyranny

uncharitable

undutiful

unmanageable

unprincipled

unpropitious

unreasonable

unrefined

unrelenting

unruly

unsatisfactory

unscrupulous

untamed

unworthy

useless

vengeful

venomous

very

viciousness

vindictive

wolf

🐺

wolfish

worthless

wretched

wrong

be quarrelsome

FROISS

iron-handed

mean-spirited

virtueless

causes and actions

over-familiar

be riotous

atrocious and cold-blooded

scirrhous

angry person

be pugnacious

be harsh

hard-handed

be bad

over-bold

stone-hearted

be savage

blood crazed

evil-spirited

kindless

over-bearing

devoid of affection

ill-behaved

fiendish person

stonyhearted

asperous

badly-behaved

be destructive

be spiteful

bnetal

belluine

abandoned

gangsterlike

all-powerful

apathetic

arrogant

atrocity

awesome

badly

base

bitter

black-hearted

bloody

🩸

bloody-minded

brute

butcherly

clumsy

coarse

cold

🥶

condemned

corrupt

crueuses batailles

crusty

cursed

cutthroat

demoniac

demoralized

deny

depraved

despotic

devilish

difficult

dire

disagreeable

dismaying

dissolute

dreadful

earnest

exceedingly

fanatic

felon

felonious

flinty

frightening

gloomy

god-awful

good for nothing

graceless

gruesome

hardened

hard hearted

haughty

heavy-handed

heinous

hellish

henroost

hideous

hurtful

ill-mannered

ill-natured

immoral

improper

incorrigible

indifferent

inexorable

insensitive

ironic

jackal

lazy

malevolent

malignant

mortal

outrage

painful

passionate

profligate

rancorous

rapacious

recreant

relentless

repressive

resolute

rigid

rob

ruthful

sanguinary

seriously

shameless

sinful

si perilleuses

sorrowful

steel

steely

stiff

stony

stony-hearted

stubbed

stubbly

stupid

tasteless

thoughtless

Hyphenated as

cru‧el

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɹuːəl/

Etymology

From Middle English cruel, borrowed from Old French cruel, from Latin crūdēlis (“hard, severe, cruel”), akin to crūdus (“raw, crude”); see crude.