cruel

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
发音 kro͞oəl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of crewel. alt-of,alternative,countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success) Australia,New-Zealand
    — What cruelled him was that Imperial Hotel contract.
  2. To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive. Australia,ambitransitive
    — Violence is apparently introduced early by the practice of "cruelling": children even in their first months are physically punished and then encouraged to seek retribution by punishing the punisher.
形容词 adj.
  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.
  2. Harsh; severe.
    — We're certainly having quite a cruel winter this year.
  3. Cool; awesome; neat. slang
副词 adv.
  1. To a great degree; terribly. nonstandard,not-comparable
    — "But I've served 'im ten years, and I'm fond of 'im, and, mind you, 'e's a great man, when all's said an' done, and it's an honor to serve 'im. But 'e does try one cruel at times."

词形变化

crueler comparative crueller comparative more cruel comparative cruelest superlative cruellest superlative most cruel superlative cruell alternative,obsolete cruell alternative,obsolete cruels present,singular,third-person crueling US,participle,present cruelling UK,participle,present crueled US,participle,past crueled US,past cruelled UK,participle,past cruelled UK,past cruell alternative,obsolete cruels plural cruell alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
barbarous bowelless brutal compassionless cruel demonic despiteful diabolic diabolical fell incessive inclement inhuman inhumane malicious merciless nasty nonhumane pitiless remorseless rotten ruthless sadistic savage spiteful truculent unbenevolent unbenign unkind unmerciful unpitiful unpitying
反义词
kindly merciful
上位词
evil mean
衍生词
be cruel to be kind cruel-hearted cruelize cruelly cruel mistress cruelness cruelsome goodbye, cruel world over-cruel overcruel uncruel
相关词
crude cruelty ill-disposed ill-intentioned ill-natured stern

词源

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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