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Dictionary Results for cruel:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell,
           roughshod, savage, vicious]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cruel \Cru"el\ (kr[udd]"[e^]l), n.
   See Crewel.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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            Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . .
            they are cruel and have no mercy.     --Jer. vi.
                                                  22,23.
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   2. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
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            Cruel wars, wasting the earth.        --Milton.
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            Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their
            wrath for it was cruel.               --Gen. xlix.
                                                  7.
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   3. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
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            You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength.
                                                  --Shak.
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