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The word cruel is in the Wiktionary

34 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —
  • cruel adj. Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
  • cruel adj. Harsh; severe.
  • cruel adj. (Slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
  • cruel adv. (Nonstandard) To a great degree; terribly.
  • cruel v. (Chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one’s chance of success).
  • cruel v. (Australia, transitive, intransitive) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make…
  • cruel n. Alternative form of crewel.
— Foreign words, define in English —
  • Asturian - Catalan - Galician
  • Cebuano
  • Middle english
    • cruel adj. Merciless, cruel; revelling in another’s pain.
    • cruel adj. Deleterious, injurious; conducive to suffering.
    • cruel adj. Unbearable, saddening, terrifying.
    • cruel adj. Strict, unforgiving, mean; not nice.
    • cruel adj. Savage, vicious, dangerous; displaying ferocity.
    • cruel adj. Bold, valiant, heroic (in war).
    • cruel adj. (Rare) Sharp, acrid, bitter-tasting.
— English word, defined in German —
  • cruel Adj. Absichtlich gemein; absichtlich Schmerz oder Leid verursachend.
— English word, defined in Dutch —
  • cruel bijv. Wreed.
— English word, defined in French —
  • cruel adj. Cruel, atroce.
— English word, defined in Portuguese —
  • cruel adj. Cruel.
— English word, defined in Italian —
  • cruel agg. Crudele.
— In French —
  • cruel adj.m. Qui inflige la souffrance ou la mort ; qui a un caractère…
  • cruel adj.m. (Par extension) Dur ; sévère ; rigoureux ; inflexible…
  • cruel adj.m. Douloureux ; fâcheux.
  • cruel adj.m. Insensible. (En particulier) Se dit d’une femme qui repousse…
  • cruel adj.m. (Familier) Insupportable.
  • cruel n.m. Personne qui fait preuve de férocité, de méchanceté.
  • cruel n.m. Femme qui n’écoute pas un amant.
  • cruel n.m. (Poétique) Amante qui, sans le vouloir, torture le cœur…
— In Spanish —
  • cruel adj. Que goza del sufrimiento ajeno.
  • cruel adj. Que no tiene o muestra piedad.
  • cruel adj. Por extensión, arduo y doloroso de soportar.
— In Portuguese —
  • cruel adj. Que tem prazer em fazer mal.
  • cruel adj. Bárbaro; severo; pungente; doloroso; sanguinário; atroz;…
73 English words from 16 English definitions

acrid Alternative and another Australia awesome belief bitter Bold causing chance Chiefly child conducive Cool crewel cruel dangerous degree Deleterious displaying ferocity form great Harsh heartless heroic injurious in␣pain Intentionally intransitive make mean merciless neat New New␣Zealand nice Nonstandard not one pain pain␣and␣suffering provoke Rare reveling revelling ruin saddening Savage severe Sharp Slang spoil Strict success suffering surname tasting terribly terrifying that the this transitive Unbearable unforgiving valiant vicious violently war will Zealand

19 English words from 18 foreign definitions

Amante Cruel del dit doloroso Dur extension fait femme inflexible Insensible Insupportable mal mort Par pas Que sans torture

51 foreign words from 18 foreign definitions

absichtlich ajeno amant arduo atroce atroz Bárbaro caractère cœur Crudele Douloureux écoute En␣particulier extensión fâcheux Familier fazer férocité gemein goza inflige Leid méchanceté muestra oder Par␣extension particulier pas␣un Personne piedad Poétique Por prazer preuve pungente qui repousse rigoureux sanguinário Schmerz sévère severo soportar souffrance sufrimiento tem tiene une verursachend vouloir Wreed

32 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

cruell cruels crueler cruells cruelly cruelty cruelest cruelize cruelled crueller cruellie cruellty crueltie cruelized cruelizes cruellest cruelling cruelltie cruelness cruelsome cruelties cruelizing cruellties cruelnesses cruelty-free cruelhearted cruel-hearted cruel␣mistress cruel-heartedly cruel␣mistresses cruelheartedness cruel-heartedness

3 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

anticruelty be␣cruel␣to␣be␣kind goodbye,␣cruel␣world

3 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

uncruel overcruel over-cruel

7 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

cru Cru CRU crue rue Rue Ruel

6 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

EUR eur- eur. Eur. leu LEU

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

lucre ulcer

43 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

becurl celure cerule churel colure crudle cruell cruels culler Culler Culmer culter culver Culver curdle curled Curlee curler curlew Curley curple curule cutler Cutler Cuyler lucern Lucero Lucier lucker Lucker Lucret McLure recule recurl reluct Ruckel ruckle Ruckle surcle ulcera ulcero- ulcers ulcery

21 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Cler clue Clue crue cuer -cule cure Cure curl Curl ecru écru leuc- luce Luce lure ReLU Ruel rule Rule UERL

10 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

creel Creel CRREL crues cruet Cruey crull Crull gruel truel

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

crue Ruel

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

cruell


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