Cruel word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "cruel" word
[adjective] lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy
[adjective] (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"
[adjective] (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"
\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 for cruel
barbarous, brutal, fell, hard, harsh, heartless, inhumane, rigorous, roughshod, savage, unkind, vicious
Related terms: brutalized, cold-blooded, cruel-hearted, dog-eat-dog, ferocious, fierce, flinty, griping, harrowing, hie, hurting, infernal, inhuman, proceed, push on, sanguinary, slaughterous, torturous, unforgiving, unhuman, unsympathizing, vicious
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Let's analyse "cruel" as pure text. This string has Five letters in One syllable and Two vowels. 40% of vowels is 1.4% more then average English word. Written in backwards: LEURC. Average typing speed for these characters is 1340 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
cruel: 3 + 5 = 8, reduced: 8 . and the final result is Eight. |
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