English-Thai Dictionary
cruel
ADJ ซึ่ง ก่อให้เกิด ความเจ็บปวด ร้ายแรง sueng-kor-hai-koed-kwam-jeb-puad
cruel
ADJ โหดร้าย brutal inhuman hod-rai
cruelly
ADV อย่าง ทารุ ณ อย่าง โหดร้าย brutally inhumanly yang-tha-run
cruelly
ADV อย่าง เจ็บปวด อย่างร้ายแรง yang-jeb-puad
cruelty
N การกระทำ ที่ โหดร้าย การกระทำ ที่ ทารุ ณ kan-kra-tam-ti-hod-rai
cruelty
N ความเจ็บปวด ทาง ร่างกาย หรือ จิตใจ kwam-jeb-puad-tang-rang-kai-rue-jid-jai
cruelty
N ความโหดร้าย ความทารุ ณ inhumanity hardheartedness kwam-hod-rai
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CRUEL
a.[L. See Crude and Rude. ] 1. Disposed to give pain to others, in body or mind; willing or pleased to torment, vex or afflict; inhuman; destitute of pity, compassion or kindness; fierce; ferocious; savage; barbarous; hardhearted; applied to persons or their dispositions.
They are cruel, and have no mercy. Jeremiah 6:23.
2. Inhuman; barbarous; savage; causing pain, grief or distress; exerted in tormenting, vexing or afflicting.
Cursed be their wrath, for it was cruel. Genesis 49:7.
The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Proverbs 12:1 .
Others had trials of cruel mockings. Hebrews 11:36.
CRUELLY
adv. 1. In a cruel manner; with cruelty; inhumanly; barbarously.
Because he cruelly oppressed, he shall die in his iniquity. Ezekiel 18:18.
2. Painfully; with severe pain, or torture; as, an instrument may cut the flesh most cruelly.
CRUELNESS
n.Inhumanity; cruelty.
CRUELTY
n.[L.] 1. Inhumanity; a savage or barbarous disposition or temper, which is gratified in giving unnecessary pain or distress to others; barbarity; applied to persons; as the cruelty of savages; the cruelty and envy of the people.
2. Barbarous deed; any act of a human being which inflicts unnecessary pain; any act intended to torment, vex or afflict, or which actually torments or afflicts, without necessity; wrong; injustice; oppression.
With force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. Ezekiel 34:4.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CRUEL
CRUEL Cru "el (kr "l ), n.
Defn: See Crewel.
CRUEL
Cru "el (kr *"l ), a. Etym: [F. cruel, fr. L. crudelis, fr. crudus. See Crude. ]
1. 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. Behold a people cometh from the north country; ... they are cruel and have no mercy. Jer. vi. 22,23.
2. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery. Cruel wars, wasting the earth. Milton. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was cruel. Gen. xlix. 7.
3. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh. You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength. Shak.
CRUELLY
CRUELLY Cru "el *ly, adv.
1. In a cruel manner.
2. Extremly; very. [Colloq. ] Spectator.
CRUELNESS
CRUELNESS Cru "el *ness, n.
Defn: Cruelty. [Obs. ] Spenser.
CRUELS
Cru "els (kr "lz ), n. pl. Etym: [Corrupt. fr. F. scrofula. ]
Defn: Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
CRUELTY
Cru "el *ty (-t ), n.; pl. Cruelties (-t. Etym: [OF. cruelt, F. cruaut,fr. L. crudelitas, fr. crudelis. See Cruel. ]
1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak.
2. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain. Cruelties worthy of the dungeons of the Inquisition. Macualay.
New American Oxford Dictionary
cruel
cru el |ˈkro͞oəl kru (ə )l | ▶adjective ( crueler, cruelest; Brit. crueller, cruellest ) • willfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it: people who are cruel to animals | a cruel remark. causing pain or suffering: the winters are long, hard, and cruel. DERIVATIVES cru el ly adverb ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from Latin crudelis, related to crudus (see crude ).
cruelty
cru el ty |ˈkro͞oəltē ˈkru (ə )lti | ▶noun ( pl. cruelties ) callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain and suffering: he has treated her with extreme cruelty. • behavior that causes pain or suffering to a person or animal: we can't stand cruelty to animals | the cruelties of forced assimilation and genocide. • Law behavior that causes physical or mental harm to another, esp. a spouse, whether intentionally or not. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French crualte, based on Latin crudelitas, from crudelis (see cruel ).
cruelty-free
cru el ty-free ▶adjective (of cosmetics or other commercial products ) manufactured or developed by methods that do not involve experimentation on animals.
Oxford Dictionary
cruel
cruel |krʊəl | ▶adjective ( crueller, cruellest; US crueler, cruelest ) wilfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it: people who are cruel to animals | a cruel remark. • causing pain or suffering: the winters are long, hard, and cruel. ▶verb ( cruels, cruelling, cruelled ) [ with obj. ] Austral. informal spoil or ruin (an opportunity or a chance of success ): Ernie nearly cruelled the whole thing by laughing. [late 19th cent.: perhaps influenced by the idiom queer someone's pitch (see queer ). ] PHRASES be cruel to be kind act towards someone in a way which seems harsh but will ultimately be of benefit to them. cruel and unusual punishment a category of excessively severe punishment banned under the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution (and originally under the English Bill of Rights ). this is an important case that confronts the issue of what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. DERIVATIVES cruelly adverb ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from Latin crudelis, related to crudus (see crude ).
cruelty
cruelty |ˈkrʊəlti | ▶noun ( pl. cruelties ) [ mass noun ] cruel behaviour or attitudes: he has treated her with extreme cruelty | we can't stand cruelty to animals | [ count noun ] : the cruelties of forced assimilation and genocide. • Law behaviour which causes physical or mental harm to another, especially a spouse, whether intentionally or not. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French crualte, based on Latin crudelitas, from crudelis (see cruel ).
cruelty-free
cruelty-free ▶adjective (of cosmetics or other commercial products ) manufactured or developed by methods which do not involve cruelty to animals.
American Oxford Thesaurus
cruel
cruel adjective 1 a cruel man: brutal, savage, inhuman, barbaric, barbarous, brutish, bloodthirsty, murderous, vicious, sadistic, wicked, evil, fiendish, diabolical, monstrous, abominable; callous, ruthless, merciless, pitiless, remorseless, uncaring, heartless, stony-hearted, hard-hearted, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, unfeeling, unkind, inhumane; dated dastardly; literary fell. ANTONYMS compassionate. 2 her death was a cruel blow: harsh, severe, bitter, harrowing, heartbreaking, heart-rending, painful, agonizing, traumatic; formal grievous. ANTONYMS mild. WORD SPECTRUM: kind / cruel See kind Word Spectrums show shades of meaning between two polar opposites.
cruelty
cruelty noun he treated her with cruelty: brutality, savagery, inhumanity, barbarity, barbarousness, brutishness, sadism, bloodthirstiness, viciousness, wickedness; lack of compassion, callousness, ruthlessness. WORD NOTE cruelty, brutality In his essay “Notes on the English Character, ” E. M. Forster casually observes that brutality is considered a German trait and cruelty a Spanish one, just as superficiality is thought to be an American trait and hypocrisy a British one. I understand well enough superficiality and hypocrisy. But I would dearly love to know what Forster thought the difference was between brutality and cruelty. Let us say that either word implies the inflicting of pain. Is brutality akin to ruthlessness, the inflicting of pain as the most effective means to achieve stipulated ends? And is cruelty related to sadism, where the viciousness is done for its own sake and not for an imagined advantage? — DL Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.
Oxford Thesaurus
cruel
cruel adjective 1 the prisoner was a hard, cruel man | they think fox hunting a cruel practice: brutal, savage, inhuman, barbaric, barbarous, brutish, bloodthirsty, murderous, homicidal, cut-throat, vicious, ferocious, fierce; wicked, evil, fiendish, devilish, diabolical, heinous, abominable, monstrous, atrocious, vile, hideous, ghastly, nasty, spiteful, mean; callous, sadistic, ruthless, merciless, unmerciful, pitiless, unsparing, unrelenting, remorseless, uncaring, unsympathetic, uncharitable, heartless, stony-hearted, hard-hearted, cold-hearted, cold-blooded, bloodless, unfeeling, unemotional, unkind, inhumane, severe, harsh, stern, inclement, flinty, draconian; Brit. informal beastly; archaic dastardly, sanguinary. ANTONYMS compassionate, merciful. 2 his mother's death was a cruel blow: harsh, severe, grim, grievous, hard, tough, bitter, harrowing, heartbreaking, heart-rending, distressing, upsetting, traumatic, painful, agonizing, excruciating; rare distressful. ANTONYMS mild.
cruelty
cruelty noun 1 he treated her with extreme cruelty: brutality, savagery, savageness, inhumanity, barbarism, barbarousness, brutishness, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, viciousness, ferocity, ferociousness, fierceness; callousness, sadism, ruthlessness, relentlessness, mercilessness, pitilessness, remorselessness, lack of regard, lack of sympathy, lack of charity, heartlessness, cold-heartedness, cold-bloodedness, severity, harshness, inclemency; wickedness, badness, baseness, iniquity, blackness, black-heartedness, evil, fiendishness, devilishness, heinousness, nastiness, unkindness, abuse; rare ferity. ANTONYMS compassion, mercy. 2 the cruelty of a cold winter night: harshness, severity, unkindness, relentlessness, grimness, hardness, toughness, bitterness, painfulness, wretchedness; torment, trauma, pain, distress, misery. ANTONYMS mildness.
French Dictionary
cruel
cruel , elle adj. adjectif 1 Qui se plaît à faire souffrir. : Cet enfant est cruel, il martyrise les insectes. SYNONYME féroce ; méchant . 2 Douloureux. : Une épreuve cruelle. SYNONYME dur ; pénible ; terrible . Note Sémantique Ne pas confondre avec les mots suivants: • bestial, qui a la cruauté des bêtes féroces; • féroce, qui est sauvage et cruel par nature; • inhumain, qui est étranger à tout sentiment de pitié.
cruellement
cruellement adv. adverbe De façon cruelle. : Cette fracture la faisait cruellement souffrir. SYNONYME affreusement ; atrocement .
Spanish Dictionary
cruel
cruel adjetivo 1 [persona ] Que no siente compasión ante el sufrimiento ajeno, o que se deleita con ello :el mendigo ciego de "Los olvidados " (1950 ) es descrito sin sentimentalismos, como una persona cruel y vengativa que golpea a sus jóvenes agresores con un bastón que lleva un afilado clavo en la punta .2 Que implica o denota crueldad :él se enreda con mil explicaciones y ella, mientras, se ríe por lo bajo con una risita cruel .3 Que causa un gran sufrimiento, o que es especialmente sangriento, duro o violento :un dolor cruel; una cruel catástrofe; un cruel asesinato; una cruel agonía .Los superlativos son crudelísimo, formal, y cruelísimo .
crueldad
crueldad nombre femenino 1 Cualidad de cruel :no parecía que hubiera ido envejeciendo con la apacible crueldad de los años; Túpac Amaru murió santificado en una ceremonia de atroz crueldad .2 Acción propia de una persona cruel :es una crueldad matar crías de focas para arrancarles la piel .
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
cruel
cru el /krú (ː )əl /〖語源は 「粗野な, 生の 」; crudeと同根 〗(名 )cruelty 形容詞 ～er ; ～est /｟英 ｠～ler ; ～lest 1 a. 〈人 態度 言動などが 〉【人 動物に対して 】残酷な , 冷酷な , 無慈悲な «to » ▸ How can you be so cruel to me? どうしてそんなに私につらくあたれるの ▸ be cruel to animals 動物を虐待する ▸ a cruel joke 冷酷な冗談 ▸ be cruel to be kind 人のためを思ってわざと厳しくする, 心を鬼にする .b. 〖it is ～ (of A ) to do 〗(A 〈人 〉が )…するのは残酷だ , ひどい, 忍びない ▸ It is cruel of you to say so .そんなことを言うとはあなたはなんて残酷な人だ 2 〈物 事 状況などが 〉つらい , 痛ましい , 悲惨な , ひどい ▸ Life is cruel .人生はつらいものだ ▸ a cruel blow [war ]大きな痛手 [むごい戦争 ]～ness 名詞 U 残酷 (さ ).
cruelly
cru el ly /krú (ː )əli /副詞 残酷 [冷酷 ]に ; つらく, むごく ; とても, ひどく (extremely ).
cruelty
cru el ty /krú (ː )əlti /→cruel 名詞 複 -ties /-z /1 a. U «…に対する » 残酷さ , 冷酷さ ; 虐待 , 無慈悲 , 残忍 (性 ) «to , toward » ; (戦争などの )悲惨さ , つらさ ▸ suffer a great deal of cruelty ひどい虐待を受ける ▸ the cruelty of child labor 児童労働のむごさ b. C 〖通例 -ties 〗残酷な行為 [言葉 ].2 C 〘法 〙(配偶者への )虐待 .
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