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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cruel \Cru"el\ (kr[udd]"[e^]l), n. See {Crewel}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cruel adj 1: lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy [syn: {unkind}] 2: (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}, {fell}, {roughshod}, {savage}, {vicious}] 3: (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war" [syn: {brutal}] 4: (of circumstances; especially weather) causing suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters" [syn: {brutal}, {harsh}, {rigorous}, {unkind}]
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