cruel

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Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
cruelercruellermore cruelcruelest
Superlative
cruellestmost cruelcruell
  1. 1.

    Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.

    The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.

    Đồng nghĩa: inhuman, sadistic, spiteful

  2. 2.

    Harsh; severe.

    We're certainly having quite a cruel winter this year.

    Đồng nghĩa: brutal, callous, strict, brutal, callous, cold, cold-eyed, cruel, dour, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, harsh, humorless, icy, iron-hearted, insensate, insensitive, marble-hearted, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, tough, unsympathetic, unmoved

  3. 3.

    (slang)Cool; awesome; neat.

Trạng từ

adverb
Comparative
cruell
  1. 1.

    (nonstandard, not comparable)To a great degree; terribly.

Động từ

verb
V_es/s
cruels
V_ing/Gerund
crueling
V_ed/pp
cruellingcrueled
  1. 1.

    (Australia, New Zealand)(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)

  2. 2.

    (Australia, ambitransitive)To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
cruelscruell
  1. 1.

    (alt of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of crewel.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

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Trái nghĩa

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English cruel, borrowed from Old French cruel, from Latin crūdēlis (hard, severe, cruel), akin to crūdus (raw, crude); see crude.

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