It is cruel of you to find fault with her.
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Cruel
//ˈkɹuːəl//
Synonyms for "cruel" (158 found)
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Closest matches (32)
Strong matches (47)
Related words (79)
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Adjective(4 words)
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1 entriesTranslations
158 translations across 85 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- wreedaardig adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Albanian
1 entries- mizor adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Arabic
2 entries- الْقَاسِي adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- قَاسٍ adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Armenian
2 entries- անգութ adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- դաժան adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Asturian
1 entries- cruel adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- amansız adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- mərhəmətsiz adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- qəddar adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- vəhşi adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Belarusian
1 entries- жо́рсткі adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Bulgarian
1 entries- жесто́к adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Catalan
1 entries- cruel adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Chinese
1 entries- 橫逆 /横逆 adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 殘忍 /残忍 adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- 殘酷 /残酷 adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- 狠心 adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Czech
1 entries- krutý adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Danish
4 entries- grum adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- grusom adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- ond adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- rå adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Dutch
4 entries- gemeen adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- gemene adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- wrede adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- wreed adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Esperanto
1 entries- kruela adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Estonian
1 entries- julm adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Faroese
1 entries- grimmur adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Finnish
1 entries- julma adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
French
1 entries- cruel adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Friulian
1 entries- crudêl adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Galician
1 entries- cruel adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Georgian
2 entries- სასტიკი adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- ულმობელი adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
German
1 entries- grausam adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Greek
1 entries- σκληρός adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Hebrew
1 entries- אַכְזָרִי adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Hindi
3 entries- क्रूर adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- ज़ालिम adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- निर्दयी adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Hungarian
1 entries- kegyetlen adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Icelandic
2 entries- grimmur adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- vondur adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Indonesian
2 entries- kejam adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- tega adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Interlingua
1 entries- cruel adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Irish
4 entries- ainiochtach adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- cruálach adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- danartha adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- daordhálach adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Italian
1 entries- crudele adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Japanese
4 entries- 惨い adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- 残忍 adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- 残酷 adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- 酷い adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Kazakh
2 entries- мейірімсіз adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- қатал adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Korean
2 entries- 잔인하다 adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- 잔혹하다 adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- катаал adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- ырайымсыз adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Ladino
3 entries- ahzar adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- imansiz adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- kruel adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Latin
2 entries- crūdēlis adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- saevus adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Latvian
1 entries- nežēlīgs adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Lithuanian
2 entries- negailestingas adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- žiaurus adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Malay
2 entries- kejam adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- zalim adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Malayalam
1 entries- ക്രൂരം adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Middle English
1 entries- cruel adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Mongolian
1 entries- хэрцгий adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Māori
1 entries- whakawiriwiri adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Neapolitan
1 entries- malo adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- i adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- bêrehm adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- zalim adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- grusom adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Occitan
3 entries- crudèl adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- crusèl adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- cruèl adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Old English
1 entries- wælhrēow adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دینسز adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Papiamentu
1 entries- kruel adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Persian
3 entries- بی رَحْم adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- ظالِم adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- ظالِمانِه adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- grausom adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Polish
1 entries- okrutny adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Portuguese
1 entries- cruel adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Romanian
3 entries- crud adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- crunt adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- cumplit adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Russian
1 entries- жесто́кий adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Sanskrit
1 entries- क्रूर adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- borb adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- brùideil adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- cruadalach adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- garg adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- nȅčovečan adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- nȅčovječan adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- ȍkrūtan adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- не̏човечан adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Sicilian
1 entries- crudili adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Slovak
1 entries- krutý adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Slovene
1 entries- krut adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Spanish
2 entries- cruel adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- cruento adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Swahili
1 entries- dhalimu adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Swedish
1 entries- grym adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Tagalog
1 entries- malupit adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Tajik
4 entries- бераҳм adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- бераҳмона adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- золим adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- золимона adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Tatar
1 entries- рәхимсез adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Telugu
1 entries- క్రూరమైన adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Thai
3 entries- ทารุณ adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- โหด adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- โหดร้าย adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Turkish
4 entries- acımasız adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- merhametsiz adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- vahşi adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- zalim adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Turkmen
1 entries- rehimsiz adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Tày
1 entries- ác adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Ukrainian
1 entries- жорсто́кий adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Urdu
3 entries- ظالِم adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- ظالِمانَہ adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- نِرْدَیِی adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Uyghur
3 entries- بىرەھىم adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- رەھىمسىز adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- ۋەھشىي adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Uzbek
4 entries- berahm adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- rahmsiz adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- shafqatsiz adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- vahshiy adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Vietnamese
1 entries- độc ác adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Welsh
1 entries- creulon adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
West-Frisian
1 entries- wreed adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- nilimjak-koorring adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Yiddish
2 entries- אכזריותדיק adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
- גרויזאַם adj (that intentionally causes pain and suffering)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
The monster's smile was cruel.
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Destiny is sometimes cruel.
Source: tatoeba (26535)
It is cruel of him to ill-treat pets.
Source: tatoeba (33960)
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