The girl was at the mercy of his cruelty.
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Cruelty
//ˈkɹuː(ə)lti//
Synonyms for "cruelty" (62 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (31)
Related word relations
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More general
10 entriesat location
1 entriescauses desire
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
122 translations across 47 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὠμότης noun (indifference to suffering)
Arabic
2 entries- قَسْوَة noun (indifference to suffering)
- وَحْشِيَّة noun (indifference to suffering)
Armenian
1 entries- դաժանություն noun (indifference to suffering)
Asturian
3 entries- crueldá noun (indifference to suffering)
- crueldá noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- crueldá noun (cruel act)
Belarusian
2 entries- жо́рсткасць noun (indifference to suffering)
- лю́тасць noun (indifference to suffering)
Bulgarian
3 entries- жесто́кост noun (indifference to suffering)
- жесто́кост noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- свире́пост noun (indifference to suffering)
Catalan
3 entries- crueltat noun (indifference to suffering)
- crueltat noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- crueltat noun (cruel act)
Chechen
1 entries- къизалла noun (indifference to suffering)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 殘忍 /残忍 noun (indifference to suffering)
Czech
3 entries- krutost noun (indifference to suffering)
- krutost noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- krutost noun (cruel act)
Danish
1 entries- grusomhed noun (indifference to suffering)
Dutch
4 entries- gruwzaamheid noun (indifference to suffering)
- gruwzaamheid noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- wreedheid noun (indifference to suffering)
- wreedheid noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
Esperanto
3 entries- kruelaĵo noun (cruel act)
- krueleco noun (indifference to suffering)
- krueleco noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
French
2 entries- cruauté noun (indifference to suffering)
- cruauté noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
Friulian
1 entries- crudeltât noun (indifference to suffering)
Galician
3 entries- crueldade noun (indifference to suffering)
- crueldade noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- crueldade noun (cruel act)
Georgian
4 entries- დაუნდობლობა noun (indifference to suffering)
- დაუნდობლობა noun (cruel act)
- სისასტიკე noun (indifference to suffering)
- სისასტიკე noun (cruel act)
German
4 entries- Grausamkeit noun (indifference to suffering)
- Grausamkeit noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- Grausamkeit noun (cruel act)
- Quälerei noun (cruel act)
Hebrew
1 entries- אכזריות noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
Hindi
3 entries- क्रूरता noun (indifference to suffering)
- क्रूरता noun (cruel act)
- निर्दयता noun (indifference to suffering)
Indonesian
1 entries- kejahatan noun (cruel act)
Irish
4 entries- ainiocht noun (indifference to suffering)
- ainiocht noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- cruáil noun (indifference to suffering)
- cruáil noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
Italian
3 entries- crudeltà noun (indifference to suffering)
- crudeltà noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- crudeltà noun (cruel act)
Japanese
1 entries- 残酷さ noun (indifference to suffering)
Kazakh
3 entries- жауыздық noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- жауыздық noun (cruel act)
- қатыгездік noun (indifference to suffering)
Korean
1 entries- 잔학 noun (indifference to suffering)
Latin
2 entries- crūdēlitās noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- immānitās noun (indifference to suffering)
Macedonian
2 entries- свирепост noun (indifference to suffering)
- суровост noun (indifference to suffering)
Malayalam
1 entries- ക്രൂരത noun (cruel act)
Middle English
2 entries- tyraundise noun (cruel act)
- tyrauntrie noun (cruel act)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- grusomhet noun (indifference to suffering)
- grusomhet noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- grusomhet noun (cruel act)
Occitan
2 entries- crudeltat noun (indifference to suffering)
- cruseltat noun (indifference to suffering)
Old English
1 entries- wælhrēownes noun (indifference to suffering)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- دینسزلك noun (indifference to suffering)
- دینسزلك noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
Polish
1 entries- okrucieństwo noun (indifference to suffering)
Portuguese
3 entries- crueldade noun (indifference to suffering)
- crueldade noun (cruel act)
- perversidade noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
Romanian
3 entries- cruzime noun (indifference to suffering)
- cruzime noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- cruzime noun (cruel act)
Russian
4 entries- безжа́лостность noun (indifference to suffering)
- бессерде́чность noun (indifference to suffering)
- жесто́кость noun (indifference to suffering)
- жесто́кость noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- mì-chneastachd noun (indifference to suffering)
- mì-chneastachd noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- mì-chneastachd noun (cruel act)
- neo-thruacantachd noun (indifference to suffering)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- okrutnost noun (indifference to suffering)
- окрутност noun (indifference to suffering)
Slovak
1 entries- krutosť noun (indifference to suffering)
Slovene
1 entries- krutost noun (indifference to suffering)
Spanish
3 entries- crueldad noun (indifference to suffering)
- crueldad noun (positive pleasure in inflicting suffering)
- crueldad noun (cruel act)
Swedish
3 entries- elakhet noun (cruel act)
- grymhet noun (indifference to suffering)
- grymhet noun (cruel act)
Turkish
1 entries- zulüm noun (cruel act)
Ukrainian
2 entries- безсерде́чність noun (indifference to suffering)
- жорсто́кість noun (indifference to suffering)
Uzbek
1 entries- shafqatsizlik noun (indifference to suffering)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
We deplore your cruelty to animals.
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The cruelty of the torture in the police station is beyond description.
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Cruelty is quite alien to his nature.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.