Thesaurus:cruel
English
Adjective
Sense: desiring to cause, reveling in, or indifferent to pain and sufferingCategory:English thesaurus entries#CRUEL
Synonyms
- barbarousCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- bowellessCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#CRUELCategory:Thesaurus entries using parameter 3 of ws (obsolete)
- brutalCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- compassionlessCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- cruelCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- demonicCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#CRUELCategory:Thesaurus entries using parameter 3 of ws (figurative)
- despitefulCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL (archaic)
- diabolicCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#CRUELCategory:Thesaurus entries using parameter 3 of ws (figurative)
- diabolicalCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#CRUEL [⇒ thesaurus]Category:Thesaurus entries using parameter 3 of ws (figurative)
- fellCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#CRUELCategory:Thesaurus entries using parameter 3 of ws
- incessiveCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- inclementCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL (obsolete)
- inhumanCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- inhumaneCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- maliciousCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- mercilessCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- nastyCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- nonhumaneCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- pitilessCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- remorselessCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- rottenCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL [⇒ thesaurus]
- ruthlessCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- sadisticCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- savageCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL [⇒ thesaurus]
- spitefulCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- truculentCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- unbenevolentCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- unbenignCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- unkindCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- unmercifulCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
- unpitifulCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL (archaic)
- unpityingCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#CRUEL
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Various
See also
Further reading
- “907. malevolence” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “cruel” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.