The Meaning of cruel

• (n.) See Crewel.
• (a.) Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.
• (a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
• (a.) Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

Synonyms

barbarous , brutal , fell , roughshod , savage , vicious

Homophones

crewel

Rhymes

abdul , accrual , apostolopoul , baiul , bellefeuille , blackpool , boole , boule , breughel , bruehl , brule , buehl , buel , buell , buhl , cesspool , claypool , cool , coole , crewel , dewall , drogoul , drool , dual , duel , duell , dule , ewell , fool , fuel , ghoul , grauel , gruel , gurule , home-school , hoole , istanbul , jewel , joule , juel , jule , juul , kuhle , liverpool , luelle , makhoul , mccool , minuscule , misrule , molecule , muehl , mule , newel , newell , nonaccrual , overrule , pool , poole , poul , preschool , rahul , rantoul , raoul , raul , refuel , renewal , retool , reul , reule , rhule , ridicule , ruel , ruhle , rule , saccule , school , schuele , sewall , sewell , spool , sproule , sproull , spruell , spruiell , spruill , stool , supercool , thule , tool , toole , tuel , tuell , tulle , tuyle , unusual , vestibule , vipul , whirlpool , yuill , yuille , yule