Definitions for cruel

cruel cru·el

Spelling: [kroo-uh l]
IPA: /ˈkru əl/

Cruel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in cruel (celru).

Definitions for cruel

adjective

  1. willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
  2. enjoying the pain or distress of others:
  3. causing or marked by great pain or distress:
  4. rigid; stern; strict; unrelentingly severe.

Origin of cruel

1175-1225; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French Latin crūdēlis, equivalent to crūd(us) (see crude) + -ēlis adj. suffix

Examples for cruel

"He is cruel, and the very incarnation of selfishness," he said.

Vsevolod Meyerhold, the great theater director, spoke of the effect the “angry, cruel headlines” had on his friend.

Those who bring them on us seem captious, thoughtless, cruel.

They were kind-hearted and rarely did anything that was cruel.

The story of Alstory Simon has all the scope and scale, the cruel reversals, and pointless waste of proper tragedy.

Supposing—— It was cruel to excite and upset her just for that; it made the pain worse.

His later books drew heavily from experiences and people he encountered at the bar, including the cruel captain in The Sea-Wolf.

The contrasts were so cruel that they scorched the eyes of the soul.

Not to those in power, not to the cruel and inhumane, not to the wealthy.

Hatuey replied that he would rather burn and be sent to hell than ever again encounter people as cruel as the Spanish.

Word Value for cruel
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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