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Definitions for: Cruel
[adj] (of circumstances; especially weather) causing suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters"
[adj] lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy
[adj] (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"
[adj] (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"
Webster (1913) Definition: Cru"el (kr[udd]"[e^]l), n.
See Crewel.
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.
Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . .
they are cruel and have no mercy. --Jer. vi.
22,23.
2. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
Cruel wars, wasting the earth. --Milton.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their
wrath for it was cruel. --Gen. xlix.
7.
3. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength.
--Shak.
Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, fell, hard, harsh, heartless, inhumane, rigorous, roughshod, savage, unkind, vicious
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