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5-letter words (3 found)

CRUEL,LUCRE,ULCER,

4-letter words (8 found)

CLUE,CRUE,CURE,CURL,ECRU,LUCE,LURE,RULE,

3-letter words (12 found)

CEL,CRU,CUE,CUR,ECU,LEU,LUR,REC,RUC,RUE,ULE,URE,

2-letter words (4 found)

EL,ER,RE,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 28 words from cruel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of cruel

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Definitions and meaning of cruel

cruel

Alternative forms

  • cruell (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kro͞oəl, IPA(key): /kɹuː(ə)l/
  • Rhymes: -ʊəl, -uːl
  • Hyphenation: cru‧el

Etymology 1

From Middle English cruel, borrowed from Old French cruel, from Latin crūdēlis (“hard, severe, cruel”), akin to crūdus (“raw, crude”); see crude.

Adjective

cruel (comparative crueler or crueller or more cruel, superlative cruelest or cruellest or most cruel)

  1. Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
    Synonym: sadistic
    Antonym: merciful
  2. Harsh; severe.
    Synonym: brutal
  3. (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
Derived terms
  • be cruel to be kind
  • cruel-hearted
  • cruel mistress
  • cruelly
  • cruelness
  • cruelsome
  • goodbye, cruel world
  • overcruel
Related terms
  • crude
  • cruelty
Translations

Adverb

cruel (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard) To a great degree; terribly.

Verb

cruel (third-person singular simple present cruels, present participle cruelling, simple past and past participle cruelled)

  1. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
  2. (Australia, transitive, intransitive) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.
    • 2009, Mark Colvin, ABC, "Peter Sutton discusses the politics of suffering in Aboriginal communities," 2 July, 2009, [3]
      […] I was referring to the area where you were talking about this practice of cruelling; the pinching of babies, sometimes so hard that their skin breaks and may go septic.

Etymology 2

Noun

cruel (countable and uncountable, plural cruels)

  1. Alternative form of crewel

Further reading

  • “cruel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “cruel”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • lucre, ulcer

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin crūdēlis.

Adjective

cruel (epicene, plural crueles)

  1. cruel

Related terms

  • crueldá
  • crudu

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin crūdēlis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [kɾuˈɛl]

Adjective

cruel m or f (masculine and feminine plural cruels)

  1. cruel

Derived terms

  • cruelment

Related terms

  • crueltat
  • cru

Further reading

  • “cruel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “cruel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cruel, from Latin crūdēlis; either remade based on the Latin or evolved from the Old French form crual, possibly from a Vulgar Latin form *crūdālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁy.ɛl/
  • Homophones: cruels, cruelle, cruelles

Adjective

cruel (feminine cruelle, masculine plural cruels, feminine plural cruelles)

  1. cruel
  2. hard, painful

Synonyms

  • féroce
  • pénible

Derived terms

  • cruellement

Related terms

  • cruauté
  • cru

Further reading

  • “cruel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • culer
  • recul

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin crūdēlis.

Adjective

cruel m or f (plural crueis)

  1. cruel

Derived terms

  • cruelment

Related terms

  • crueldade
  • cru

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • kruell, cruele, cruwel, crewel, cruell, cruwelle, crewelle, cruelle, crowell

Etymology

From Old French crual, from Latin crūdēlis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kriu̯ˈɛːl/, /ˈkriu̯ɛl/, /ˈkriu̯əl/, /ˈkruəl/

Adjective

cruel

  1. Merciless, cruel; revelling in another's pain.
  2. Deleterious, injurious; conducive to suffering.
  3. Unbearable, saddening, terrifying.
  4. Strict, unforgiving, mean; not nice.
  5. Savage, vicious, dangerous; displaying ferocity.
  6. Bold, valiant, heroic (in war)
  7. (rare) Sharp, acrid, bitter-tasting.

Derived terms

  • cruelheed
  • cruelly
  • cruelnesse
  • cruelte

Descendants

  • English: cruel
  • Scots: cruel

References

  • “crūē̆l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cruel, from Latin crūdēlis.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
  • Hyphenation: cru‧el

Adjective

cruel m or f (plural cruéis)

  1. (of a person or creature) cruel (that intentionally causes or revels in pain and suffering)
    Synonym: bárbaro
  2. (of a situation or occurrence) cruel; harsh; severe
    Synonyms: severo, terrível, pesado
  3. (of a doubt or question) distressful
    Synonym: terrível
  4. (of an occurrence) bloody; violent
    Synonyms: sangrento, cruento, sanguinolento

Derived terms

  • cruelmente

Related terms

  • crueldade
  • cru

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin crūdēlis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾwel/ [ˈkɾwel]
  • Rhymes: -el
  • Syllabification: cruel

Adjective

cruel m or f (masculine and feminine plural crueles)

  1. cruel, mean

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “cruel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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