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< Middle English < Old French < Latin crudelis (“‘hard, severe, cruel’”), akin to crudus (“‘raw, crude’”); see crude.
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cruel (comparative crueler or crueller, superlative cruelest or cruellest)
- Not nice; mean; heartless.
- (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
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Cruel
- Afrikaans: wreedaardig
- Albanian: mizor
- Arabic: قاسي ar(ar) (qaasiy)
- Armenian: անգութ (angout)
- Bengali: nishthur bn(bn)
- Bulgarian: жесток bg(bg) (žestok)
- Catalan: cruel
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 殘忍 cmn(cmn), 残忍 cmn(cmn) (cánrěn), 殘酷 cmn(cmn), 残酷 cmn(cmn) (cánkù)
- Croatian: nečovječan hr(hr)
- Czech: krutý cs(cs) m.
- Danish: grusom
- Dutch: wreed, wrede, gemeen, gemene
- Esperanto: kruela eo(eo)
- Estonian: julm
- Faroese: grimmur
- Finnish: julma fi(fi)
- French: cruel fr(fr)
- Georgian: სასტიკი ka(ka) (sastiki)
- German: grausam de(de)
- Greek: σκληρός el(el) (sklērós)
- Hebrew: אַכְזָרִי (akhzary) m., אכזרית (akhzaryt) f.
- Hindi: nirdayi hi(hi)
- Hungarian: kegyetlen hu(hu)
- Indonesian: kejam id(id)
- Interlingua: cruel
- Irish: cruálach
- Italian: crudele it(it)
- Japanese: 残酷 ja(ja) (ざんこく, zankoku), 酷い ja(ja) (ひどい, hidoi), 惨い ja(ja) (むごい, mugoi)
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- Korean: 잔인한 (janinhan)
- Kurdish: zalim ku(ku), bêrehm ku(ku)
- Latin: crudelis la(la)
- Latvian: nežēlīgs
- Lithuanian: laukinis
- Malay: kejam ms(ms)
- Mongolian: хэрцгий mn(mn) (hėrcgij)
- Norwegian: grusom
- Papiamentu: kruel
- Persian: ﻡﺤﺭﻴﺒ
- Polish: okrutny m.,okrutna f., okrutne n., okrutni plural, okrutne plural,f.
- Portuguese: cruel pt(pt)
- Romanian: crud ro(ro)
- Russian: жестокий ru(ru) (žestókij)
- Scottish Gaelic: borb, garg, cruadalach, neo-iochdmhor, neo-thruacanta
- Serbian: нечовечан (nečovečan), okrutan m., okrutna f., okrutno n.
- Slovak: krutá
- Slovene: krut sl(sl)
- Spanish: cruel es(es)
- Swahili: dhalimu sw(sw)
- Swedish: grym
- Tagalog: malupit
- Telugu: క్రూరమైన te(te) (krooramaina)
- Thai: ซึ่งก่อให้เกิดความเจ็บปวด (sêung gòr hâi gèrt kwaam jèp bpùat)
- Turkish: zalim tr(tr)
- Ukrainian: жорстокий (žorstókyj)
- Uyghur: achchiq
- Vietnamese: độc ác
- Welsh: creulon
- West Frisian: wreed
- Yiddish: groysam
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cruel m. (f. cruelle, m. plural cruels, f. plural cruelles)
- cruel
- hard, painful
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cruel m. and f. (plural crueles)
- cruel
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