Cruel

Adjective

 * 1) Not nice; mean; heartless.
 * The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.
 * 1)  Cool; awesome; neat.

Verb

 * 1) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)

Synonyms for Cruel
brutal, sadistic, vicious, barbarous, merciless, ferocious, savage, inhuman, pitiless, cold-blooded, harsh.

Antonyms for Cruel
merciful, kind, considerate, feeling, gentle, compassionate, charitable.

Derived terms

 * cruelly

Related terms

 * crude
 * crudeness
 * cruelty

Thesaurus
Draconian, Tartarean, acute, afflictive, agonizing, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, biting, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bowelless, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, callous, cannibalistic, cold-blooded, cramping, cruel-hearted, cruise, cutthroat, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, distressing, dog-eat-dog, excruciating, fare, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flinty, gnawing, go, gory, grave, grim, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartless, heinous, hellish, hie, homicidal, hurtful, hurting, implacable, inclement, inexorable, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, journey, merciless, monstrous, murderous, outrageous, painful, paroxysmal, pass, piercing, pitiless, poignant, proceed, pungent, push on, racking, red-handed, relentless, remorseless, repair, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, self-destructive, severe, sharkish, sharp, shooting, slaughterous, slavering, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, stinging, subhuman, suicidal, tormenting, torturous, travel, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unfeeling, unforgiving, unhuman, unkind, unmerciful, unpitiful, unpitying, unremorseful, unsparing, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unyielding, vicious, wend, without mercy, wolfish

Etymology
< <  crudelis:, akin to crudus:; see crude.

Adjective

 * Afrikaans: wreedaardig
 * Albanian: mizor
 * Arabic: قاسي
 * Armenian:, անգութ
 * Belarusian: жорсткі
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: cruel
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 殘忍, 残忍,  殘酷,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: grusom
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: julm
 * Faroese: grimmur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, אכזרית
 * Hindi: निर्दयी, ज़ालिम
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: cruel
 * Irish: cruálach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,  惨い
 * Korean: 잔인
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: nežēlīgs
 * Lithuanian: žiaurus, negailestingas
 * Malay:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: grusom
 * Papiamentu: kruel
 * Persian: ظالم
 * Polish: okrutny
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: borb, garg, cruadalach, neo-iochdmhor, neo-thruacanta,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: нечовјечан (Ijekavian), нечовечан (Ekavian); окрутан
 * Roman: nečovječan (Ijekavian), nečovečan (Ekavian); okrutan
 * Slovak: krutý
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: malupit
 * Telugu: క్రూరమైన (krooramaina)
 * Thai: โหด, ทารุณ, โหดร้าย
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: жорстокий
 * Urdu: نردیی, ظالم
 * Uyghur: achchiq
 * Vietnamese: độc ác
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: wreed
 * Yiddish: groysam, גרויזאם

Anagrams

 * lucre
 * ulcer

Adjective

 * 1) cruel
 * 2) hard, painful

Synonyms

 * féroce
 * pénible

Related terms

 * cruellement

Anagrams

 * culer
 * recul

Adjective

 * 1) cruel

Adjective

 * 1) cruel

Related terms

 * crueldad