Reverse Dictionary: CRUEL

ADJECTIVES
► ASPERT cruel, harsh → 1866 Sc. (Bk.)
► ASPRE cruel, bitter, severe → c1374 obs.
► ATROCIOUS excessively and wantonly cruel; heinously wicked → 1669
► ATTERN cruel, ill-natured → c950 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BAD cruel, profligate, and tyrannical in conduct → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BALE cruel, actively evil, deadly, dire, pernicious, destructive → a1000 obs.
► BEASTLY brutally cruel, inhuman → 1558 obs.
► BESTIAL cruel, brutish, savage, rude, barbarous, uncivilized → c1400
► BLOODY of people: obstinate; cruel; difficult → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BLOODY-MINDED cruel or barbarous in manner → 1545
► BREME cruel, fierce, raging, furious, stern, wroth → c1175 obs.
► BUTCHERLY cruel, murderous; inflicting or involving brutal slaughter or injury → 1528
► CREWELL cruel, merciless, pitiless, hard-hearted → c1385 obs.
► CROCODILIAN cruel and treacherous; deceitful → 1632 obs.
► CRUENT cruel → 1524 obs.
► DERF cruel, terrible, dreadful → a1225 obs.
► DERN cruel, barbarous, of evil or deceitful nature → c897 obs.
► DESPITEOUS cruel, spiteful, malevolent, malicious → c1510
► DESPITOUS cruel; exhibiting ill-will or bitter enmity, malevolent; very angry → c1374 obs.
► DISPITEOUS cruel; spiteful; pitiless, merciless → 1803
► DOG-EAT-DOG cruel and ruthlessly competitive → 1850s Amer. sl.
► DOG-HEARTED cruel, unfeeling, pitiless, malicious → 1608
► DRACONIAN extremely cruel and harsh, rigorous, severe → 1876
► DRACONIC extremely cruel and harsh; rigorous, severe → 1708
► EFFEROUS cruel, ferocious, violent → 1614 obs.
► EVIL cruel, unpleasant → 1930s sl.
► FAROUCHIE cruel, savage, ferocious → 1825 Sc. obs.
► FELL savage, fierce, cruel; terrible, stern → 1684 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FELL-LURKING cruel and treacherous, lurking to do mischief → 1908 (Bk.)
► FELLY cruel, destructive → 1583 obs.
► FLINTED cruel, hard, unfeeling → 1582 obs.
► FLINT-HEART cruel, hard-hearted → 1596 obs.
► FLINT-HEARTED cruel, hard-hearted → 1560
► GRILL of persons: fierce, harsh, cruel → 1200 obs.
► HAGER cruel, fierce, evil → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HARAGEOUS cruel, stern, violent → a1400 obs.
► HARD-ASSED stern and unforgiving; cruel  → 1993
► HARD-HANDED ruling with a cruel or firm hand; forceful, severe → 1611
► HARD-HEARTED cruel, merciless; not susceptible to persuasion or to strong emotions → c1225
► HATEL cruel, severe, hostile; fierce, bitter → a850 obs.
► HETER ► HETTER cruel, rough; fierce, violent; severe; keen, eager → a1400-50 obs.
► HOLY-CRUEL cruel by being too virtuous → a1616
► IDI cruel → 2003 UK sl.
► ILL cruel, harsh, severe, unkind → 1786 Sc.
► ILL-KINDED cruel, ill-disposed; having a wicked disposition → 1917 Sc.
► ILL-SET cruel, harsh, surly, out of humour; lacking generosity, churlish; ungainly → 1776 Sc.
► IMMANE inhumanly cruel or savage; brutal, wild → 1599
► IMPITEOUS cruel, ruthless, pitiless, merciless → 1877
► IRON-FACE cruel, stern, obdurate, severe → 1892 Chinese Pidgin (Bk.)
► KEEN cruel, harsh → a1000 obs.
► LUNGEOUS cruel, vindictive, rough-mannered, violent → 1787 Eng. dial.
► MEANER THAN A JUNKYARD DOG exceptionally cruel, spiteful, malicious, or violent → 1972
► MEAN-HAIR cruel, unpleasant → 1960s homosexual sl.
► MEDIEVAL cruel, barbaric, illiberal → L19 sl.
► MUSHINFOW cruel → 1866 Sc. (Bk.)
► NERONIAN cruel, savage; exhibiting the tyranny, cruelty, or moral depravity of Nero → 1598
► ORELESS cruel, merciless; void of reverence, mercy or pity → a1000 obs.
► PEBBLE-HEARTED cruel, hard-hearted; unfeeling → 1887
► ROCK-HEARTED cruel and unfeeling → 1656
► ROUGH-HEWN cruel, rough-natured → 1600 obs.
► SANGUINARY cruel, bloodthirsty, murderous; delighting in carnage → 1623
► SANGUINOLENT cruel, bloodthirsty; merciless; eager to kill → 1577-87
► SANGUINOUS cruel, bloodthirsty; merciless; attended by bloodshed → 1663 obs.
► SANGUISUGOUS cruel, bloodthirsty, eager to kill → 1615 obs.
► SATRAPIAN cruel, tyrannical, despotic → 1822
► SATRAPICAL cruel, tyrannical, despotic → 1823
► SAVAGED rendered cruel or savage → 1611 obs.
► SEVIDICAL using cruel language; threatening → 1630 obs.
► SHARP-TOOTHED cruel, bitter, biting → 1604
► STONE-HEARTED cruel, hard-hearted, pitiless, merciless, unfeeling → 1569
► SWORD-MINDED of cruel disposition; bloody-minded → 1603 obs.
► TARTAR cruel, rough and violent, savage → 1809
► TIGERANTIC cruel, bloodthirsty, fierce, relentless → a1704 obs.
► TIGERISH ► TIGRISH cruel, bloodthirsty, fierce, relentless → 1573
► TIGERLY cruel, bloodthirsty, fierce, relentless → 1633
► TIGEROCIOUS cruel, bloodthirsty, fierce, relentless → 1874
► TIGEROUS ► TIGROUS cruel, bloodthirsty, fierce, relentless → 1532 obs.
► TIGERY cruel, bloodthirsty, fierce, relentless → 1859
► TRUCULENT cruel, fierce, savage, barbarous → c1540
► TURKISH cruel, savage, barbarous; like the Turks or their behaviour → 1602
► TYRANNOUS unjustly cruel or severe, pitiless → 1556
► UNDISPITEOUS not cruel or heartless → 1598 obs.
► UNMERCIABLE cruel, unkind, merciless, pitiless; unmerciful → a1382 obs.
► VENGEABLE cruel, dreadful; characterized by or arising from vengeance or revenge → c1430 obs.
► VESANOUS cruel, mad, furious, raging, outrageous → 1656 obs.
► WAN cruel, awful, deadly, wicked → c1400 obs., poetic usage

ADVERBS
► HARAGEOUSLY cruelly → c1440 obs.
► HARD AND SHARP cruelly, harshly → 1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MANKINDLY cruelly, ferociously → 1606 obs.
► UNMEEKLY harshly, cruelly → 1425 obs.
► VENGEABLY cruelly; pitilessly → 1412-20 arch.

NOUNS
► ASS-FUCK an instance of cruel victimization → 1977 Amer. sl.
► BARBARISM barbarous cruelty, barbarity → 1603 obs.
► CRUDELITY cruelty → 1483 obs.
► CRUEL cruelty → c1440 obs.
► CRUELLIE ► CRUELLY a cruel joke, remark, comment, etc.→ 1959 colloq.
► DIRITY cruelty, direness, dreadfulness, terribleness → 1586 obs.
► DURITY cruelty, hardness → 1543 obs.
► FELLNESS cruelty, fierceness, harshness, savagery; malignity; also, sternness, severity → c1410 obs.
► FERITY barbarous or savage cruelty; brutishness; wildness; fierceness; ferocity → c1534
► HAZING cruelty practiced on college freshmen → a1860 US
► IMMANITY inhuman cruelty; savagery, brutality; a cruel or savage act → 1539 obs.
► SHAFTING cruel or unfair treatment → 1970s US sl.
► UNMEEKNESS harshness, cruelty → 1425 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ANIMAL a very cruel, violent, or repulsive person → 1598
► BAD HEART a cruel or otherwise very wicked person → 1875 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BISCUIT a cruel or worldly woman → 1952 Amer. sl.
► BITCH a cruel, evil, or rude person; generally used of women, but may also be used of men → 1989 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► HABBAGE a rough, cruel, dishonest person → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HAZER a person who practices cruel horseplay or hazes on another → 1887 US
► HELLICAT a cruel or wicked person; a villain → 1816 orig. & chiefly Sc.
► HELL-KITE a cruel or loathsome person → a1616
► HEROD a person likened in some way to Herod the Great or his son Herod Antipas, esp. in displaying cruelty, tyranny, and wickedness → c1405
► MALISON a person who is cruel to animals → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOLOCH a cruel or ruthless person → 1659
► MOLOCHSHIP a mock title for a cruel or ruthless person → 1661 obs.
► MONSTER a person of such extreme cruelty or wickedness as to appear inhuman; a markedly cruel, depraved, vile, or hideous person → a1505
► NASTY PIECE OF WORK a cruel, unpleasant, or contemptible person → 1945
► PANTHERESS a cruel or fierce but beautiful woman → 1868
► SALVAGE a cruel or savage person; a barbarian → 1606 obs.
► SAVAGE a cruel, savage, or fierce person; an unfeeling or brutal person → 1606
► SCOURGEMUTTON an irrationally cruel person → 1581 obs.
► SIMON LEGREE a cruel overseer or employer → 20C African-American sl.
► SPARTAN DOG a cruel or bloodthirsty person → a1616
► TIGER a person of cruel, fierce, rapacious, or bloodthirsty disposition → 1500-20
► TIGRESS a cruel, fierce, or tiger-like woman → 1700
► TURK a cruel, hard-hearted, or tyrannical man; a bad-tempered or unmanageable person; a man who treats his wife harshly → 1536
► VAMPIRE a cruel and vile exactor or extortioner → 1741

VERBS
► ACHARNE to become cruel, to become greedy of flesh, to thirst for blood → c1400 obs.
► CRUELIZE to treat cruelly or brutally, to torture → 1847 Amer. dial.
► ENFELON to make cruel, fierce, or frantic → 1477 obs.
► HAZE to subject to cruel horseplay, as practiced by students; to bully, to treat cruelly → 1850 US
► INASPERATE to provoke to cruelty or bitterness; to exasperate, to embitter → 1599 obs.
► INHUMANIZE to make cruel, to render inhuman → 1871
► SAVAGE to indulge in cruel or barbarous deeds → 1563 obs.
► SAVAGIZE to render cruel or savage → 1848