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cruel
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: kro?o?l, IPA(key): /k?u?(?)l/
- Rhymes: -??l, -u?l
- Hyphenation: cru?el
Etymology 1
From Middle English cruel, borrowed from Old French cruel, from Latin cr?d?lis (“hard, severe, cruel”), akin to cr?dus (“raw, crude”); see crude.
Adjective
cruel (comparative crueler or crueller or more cruel, superlative cruelest or cruellest or most cruel)
- Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
- Synonym: sadistic
- Antonym: merciful
- Harsh; severe.
- 2013, Ranulph Fiennes, Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth
- He was physically the toughest of us and wore five layers of polar clothing, but the cold was cruel and wore us down hour after hour.
- 1951 C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
- You may be sure they watched the cliffs on their left eagerly for any sign of a break or any place where they could climb them; but those cliffs remained cruel.
- Synonym: brutal
- 2013, Ranulph Fiennes, Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth
- (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
Derived terms
- be cruel to be kind
- cruel-hearted
- cruelly
- cruelness
- cruelsome
- goodbye, cruel world
- overcruel
Related terms
- crude
- cruelty
Translations
Adverb
cruel (not comparable)
- (nonstandard) To a great degree; terribly.
Verb
cruel (third-person singular simple present cruels, present participle cruelling, simple past and past participle cruelled)
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
- 1937, Vance Palmer, Legend for Sanderson, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, p. 226, [2]
- What cruelled him was that Imperial Hotel contract.
- 2014, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 April, 2014, [3]
- He was on the fringes of Test selection last year before a shoulder injury cruelled his chances.
- 2015, The Age, 8 September, 2015, [4]
- A shortage of berth space for mega container ships will restrict capacity at Melbourne's port, cruelling Labor's attempts to get maximum value from its privatisation, a leading shipping expert has warned.
- 1937, Vance Palmer, Legend for Sanderson, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, p. 226, [2]
- (Australia, transitive, intransitive) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.
- 2007, Stewart Motha, "Reconciliation as Domination" in Scott Veitch (ed.), Law and the Politics of Reconciliation, Routledge, 2016, p. 83, [5]
- Violence is apparently introduced early by the practice of "cruelling": children even in their first months are physically punished and then encouraged to seek retribution by punishing the punisher.
- 2009, Mark Colvin, ABC, "Peter Sutton discusses the politics of suffering in Aboriginal communities," 2 July, 2009, [6]
- […] 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.
- 2007, Stewart Motha, "Reconciliation as Domination" in Scott Veitch (ed.), Law and the Politics of Reconciliation, Routledge, 2016, p. 83, [5]
Etymology 2
Noun
cruel (countable and uncountable, plural cruels)
- Alternative form of crewel
Further reading
- cruel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- cruel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- lucre, ulcer
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin cr?d?lis.
Adjective
cruel (epicene, plural crueles)
- cruel
Related terms
- crueldá
- crudu
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin cr?d?lis.
Adjective
cruel (masculine and feminine plural cruels)
- cruel
Derived terms
- cruelment
Related terms
- crueltat
- cru
Further reading
- “cruel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From Old French cruel, from Latin cr?d?lis; either remade based on the Latin or evolved from the Old French form crual, possibly from a Vulgar Latin form *cr?d?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?y.?l/
- Homophones: cruels, cruelle, cruelles
Adjective
cruel (feminine singular cruelle, masculine plural cruels, feminine plural cruelles)
- cruel
- hard, painful
Synonyms
- féroce
- pénible
Derived terms
- cruellement
Related terms
- cruauté
- cru
Further reading
- “cruel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- culer
- recul
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese [Term?], from Latin cr?d?lis.
Adjective
cruel m or f (plural crueis)
- 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 cr?d?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kriu????l/, /?kriu??l/, /?kriu??l/, /?kru?l/
Adjective
cruel
- Merciless, cruel; revelling in another's pain.
- Deleterious, injurious; conducive to suffering.
- Unbearable, saddening, terrifying.
- Strict, unforgiving, mean; not nice.
- Savage, vicious, dangerous; displaying ferocity.
- Bold, valiant, heroic (in war)
- (rare) Sharp, acrid, bitter-tasting.
Derived terms
- cruelheed
- cruelly
- cruelnesse
- cruelte
Descendants
- English: cruel
- Scots: cruel
References
- “cr???l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese cruel, from Latin cr?d?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /k?u.???/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /k?u.??w/
- Rhymes: -?w
Adjective
cruel (plural cruéis, comparable)
- (of a person or creature) cruel (that intentionally causes or revels in pain and suffering)
- Synonym: bárbaro
- (of a situation or occurrence) cruel; harsh; severe
- Synonyms: severo, terrível, pesado
- (of a doubt or question) distressful
- Synonym: terrível
- (of an occurrence) bloody; violent
- Synonyms: sangrento, cruento, sanguinolento
Derived terms
- cruelmente
Related terms
- crueldade
- cru
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish, from Latin cr?d?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?wel/, [?k?wel]
Adjective
cruel (plural crueles)
- cruel, mean
Derived terms
- cruelmente
Related terms
- crueldad
- crudo
Further reading
- “cruel” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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sordid
English
Etymology
Latin sordidus, from sord?re (“be dirty”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s??.d?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s??d?d/
- Homophone: sorted (in some varieties)
Adjective
sordid (comparative sordider, superlative sordidest)
- Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.
- Dirty or squalid.
- Morally degrading.
- 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl
- He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky. They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.
- 1994, The Lion King, Be Prepared musical number:
- I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues.
- 2006, John C. Roberts, concurrence and dissent in part in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, 548 U.S. 399 (2006)
- It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.
- 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl
- Grasping; stingy; avaricious.
- Of a dull colour.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:greedy, Thesaurus:unclean
Derived terms
- sordidity
- sordidly
- sordidness
Translations
Anagrams
- 'droids, disord, dorids, droids
Estonian
Noun
sordid
- nominative plural of sort
Romanian
Etymology
From French sordide, from Latin sordidus.
Adjective
sordid m or n (feminine singular sordid?, masculine plural sordizi, feminine and neuter plural sordide)
- sordid
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