Word Meanings - CRUEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRUEL)
- Atrocious
- Monstrous
- nefarious
- wicked
- outrageous
- villainous
- enormous
- shameful
- heinous
- cruel
- flagrant
- facinorous
- flagitious
- Barbarous
- Rude
- strange
- uncivilized
- brutal
- ferocious
- inhuman
- merciless
- outlandish
- savage
- uncouth
- atrocious
- unfettered
- gross
- Bloodthirsty
- Gory
- bloody
- murderous
- ruthless
- Brutal
- Savage
- rude
- unfeeling
- brutish
- barbarous
- sensual
- beastly
- ignorant
- stolid
- dense
- violent
- vindictive
- bloodthirsty
- intemperate
- Cutting
- Sharp
- biting
- mordant
- trenchant
- piercing
- bitter
- sarcastic
- provoking
- stinging
- sardonic
- exasperating
- satirical
- severe
- disappointing
Related words: (words related to CRUEL)
- BARBAROUS
slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous - INHUMANITY
The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns. - OUTRAGEOUS
Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous - BITTERWEED
A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray. - STINGBULL
The European greater weever fish , which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever. - STING RAY; STINGRAY
Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American - SHARPLY
In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon. - BITTERSWEET
1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. - BITUME
Bitumen. May. - SHARPER
A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler. - BITTERS
A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped. - DENSE
1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. - MERCILESS
Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak. Syn. -- Cruel; unmerciful; remorseless; ruthless; pitiless; - UNCIVILIZATION
The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism. - FLAGRANT
1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in - SENSUALISTIC
1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism. - BITHEISM
Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism. - BITARTRATE
A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar. - FACINOROUS
Atrociously wicked. Jer. Taylor. -- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n. - STOLIDNESS
See STOLIDITY - HOBIT
A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - BITE
bizan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. bita, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man. - REHIBITION
The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand. - WASTING
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive. - INHABITATE
To inhabit. - ESTRANGE
extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and - DISINTERESTING
Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton. - INHIBITORY
Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - ARBITRESS
A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton. - TRILOBITE
Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on - PERSISTING
Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv. - DISCUBITORY
Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. Sir T. Browne. - EVERLASTINGLY
In an everlasting manner.