cruel
cruel is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Crewel. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. See Crewel.
- adjective. 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.
- adjective. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
- adjective. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
- adjective. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
"a barbarous crime"
"brutal beatings"
Synonyms
barbarous, brutal, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cruel:
Common word forms
cruels, crueler, cruelly, cruelest, cruelize, cruelness
Words from these letters
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