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cruel 音標拼音: [kr'uəl] [kr'ul] a. 殘忍的,殘酷的 殘忍的,殘酷的 cruel adj 1: ( 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" [ synonym: { barbarous}, { brutal}, { cruel}, { fell}, { roughshod}, { savage}, { vicious}] Cruel \ Cru" el\ ( kr[ udd]"[ e^] l), n. See { Crewel}. [ 1913 Webster]
Cruel \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy. -- Jer. vi. 22, 23. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery. [ 1913 Webster] Cruel wars, wasting the earth. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was cruel. -- Gen. xlix. 7. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh. [ 1913 Webster] You have seen cruel proof of this man' s strength. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 129 Moby Thesaurus words for " cruel": 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
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