cruel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cruel	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for cruel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cruel adj (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(s): barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cruel \Cru"el\ (kr[udd]"[ecr]l), n. See {Crewel}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cruel \Cru"el\ (kr[udd]"[ecr]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.