CRUEL Synonyms

• deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another

• a member of an uncivilized people

• a cruelly rapacious person

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• wild and menacing

• without civilizing influences

• marked by extreme and violent energy

• attack brutally and fiercely

• criticize harshly or violently

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• having the nature of vice

• bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

• marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful

• without civilizing influences

• unrestrained and crudely rich

• emotionally hardened

• having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear

• make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

• having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)

• without compunction or human feeling

• marked by extreme and violent energy

• extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell

• of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

• unpleasantly stern

• unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• severe

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

• lacking in feeling or pity or warmth

• devoid of courage or enthusiasm

• without compunction or human feeling

• belonging to or resembling something nonhuman

• an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n

• approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value

• characterized by malice

• having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality

• marked by poverty befitting a beggar

• (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity

• (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

• of no value or worth

• very good; of the highest quality

• mean or intend to express or convey

• have as a logical consequence

• denote or connote

• have in mind as a purpose

• have a specified degree of importance

• intend to refer to

• destine or designate for a certain purpose

• having or showing no mercy

• without mercy or pity

• deficient in humane and kindly feelings

• without mercy or pity

• lacking kindness

• deficient in humane and kindly feelings

• treat brutally

• make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman

• become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• primitive in customs and culture

• the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

• seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges

• the act of felling something (as a tree)

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

• pass away rapidly

• sew a seam by folding the edges