cruel – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
cruel
adj.
heartless, unkind
Cruelty
Cruelty is indifference to
suffering, and even
pleasure in inflicting it.
Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept. Cruel ways of inflicting suffering may involve
violence, but affirmative violence is not necessary for an act to be cruel. For example, if a person is drowning and begging for help, and another person is able to help, but merely watches with disinterest or perhaps mischievous amusement, that person is being cruel — rather than violent.
cruel
Adjective
1. lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy
(synonym) unkind
(similar) heartless
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"
(synonym) barbarous, brutal, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
(similar) inhumane
3. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"
(synonym) brutal
(similar) inhumane
4. used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters"
(synonym) brutal, harsh, rigorous, unkind
(similar) hard
cruel
adj.
cruel; bitter, wicked; heartless, inhumane; ruthless, murderous
cruel
adj.
cruel, heartless, unkind; vicious, ferocious; oppressive
