English-Thai Dictionary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

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 .