Synonyms for Cruelty:

• adj.

  •ferocity (adjective)
  • more brutality,
  • more violence,
  • most murderousness,
  • crueltiest,
  • crueltier,
  • most barbarity,
  • more savagery,
  • most wildness,
  • more ferociousness,
  • most savagery,
  • most viciousness,
  • most brutality,
  • more bloodthirstiness,
  • more barbarity,
  • more murderousness,
  • more viciousness,
  • most violence,
  • most bloodthirstiness,
  • more wildness,
  • most ferociousness.

• n.

  •
  • Brutalities,
  • abuse.
  •
  • truculence,
  • kind,
  • favorite,
  • bias,
  • truculency.
  •act (noun)
  • inhuman treatment,
  • cruelty.
  •barbarism (noun)
  • localisms,
  • mis usage,
  • un-civilizedness,
  • mis-usages,
  • mis usages,
  • uncivilizednesses,
  • vernacularities,
  • un-civilizednesses,
  • provincialisms,
  • catachresises,
  • primitive cultures,
  • un civilizednesses,
  • un civilizedness,
  • mis-usage.
  •barbarity (noun)
  • boorishnesses,
  • crudenesses,
  • savagenesses,
  • ruthlessnesses.
  •brutality (noun)
  • coldness,
  • rancor,
  • grimness,
  • inflexibility,
  • malice,
  • outrage,
  • barbarousness,
  • inquisition,
  • persecution,
  • insensitivity,
  • malignity,
  • wickedness,
  • relentlessness,
  • tyranny,
  • ferocity,
  • indifference,
  • animality,
  • hardness of heart,
  • venom,
  • Monstrousness,
  • viciousness,
  • unnaturalness,
  • insensibility.
  •brutality, harshness (noun)
  • depravity,
  • severity,
  • fiendishness,
  • Hard-heartedness,
  • coarseness,
  • insensitiveness,
  • masochism,
  • torture,
  • spite.
  •cruelness (noun)
  • cruelness.
  •cruelty (noun)
  • pitilessness.
  •deviltry (noun)
  • mischief-making,
  • Witcheries,
  • devilment,
  • evil magic,
  • witchery,
  • devilishment.
  •ill (noun)
  • dis-ease,
  • in jury,
  • un pleasantness,
  • in dispositions,
  • dis orders,
  • dis-eases,
  • dis-orders,
  • dis order,
  • in-jury,
  • un-pleasantness,
  • mis-chiefs,
  • in juries,
  • un pleasantnesses,
  • in disposition,
  • un-pleasantnesses,
  • mis chief,
  • mis chiefs,
  • badnesses,
  • mis-chief,
  • in-dispositions,
  • dis eases,
  • dis ease,
  • in-disposition,
  • dis-order.
  •inhumanity (noun)
  • coldbloodednesses,
  • in humanities,
  • callousnesses,
  • in humanity,
  • cold bloodedness,
  • heartlessnesses,
  • cold-bloodednesses,
  • in-humanity,
  • cold bloodednesses,
  • in-humanities.
  •oppression (noun)
  • subjection,
  • Forcibleness,
  • iron hand,
  • tyrrany.
  •painfulness (noun)
  • aggravation,
  • soreness,
  • anguish,
  • bitterness,
  • odiousness,
  • oppressiveness,
  • acuteness,
  • distressfulness,
  • painfulness,
  • misery,
  • offensiveness,
  • grievousness,
  • torment,
  • uncomfortableness,
  • agony,
  • arduousness,
  • ache,
  • irksomeness,
  • woefulness,
  • hurtfulness,
  • annoyingness,
  • unpleasantness,
  • irritation.
  •pitilessness (noun)
  • hardheartedness,
  • unmercifulness,
  • hellishness,
  • Stoniness.
  •sadism (noun)
  • sadomasochisms,
  • Masochisms.
  •spitefulness (noun)
  • mercilessnesses,
  • re venge,
  • re-venge,
  • re venges.
  •tyranny (noun)
  • imperiousness,
  • Oligarchies,
  • Peremptoriness,
  • highhandedness,
  • high-handedness,
  • terrorism,
  • oligarchy.
  •vindictiveness (noun)
  • orneriness,
  • hatefulness,
  • cussedness,
  • cattiness,
  • vengefulness.
  •violence (noun)
  • destructiveness,
  • brute force,
  • storminess.
  •wrong (noun)
  • tort,
  • in equity,
  • sinfulness,
  • bad deeds,
  • Torts,
  • bad deed.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • cronyism,
  • despotism,
  • rough justice,
  • favoritism,
  • inequality,
  • nepotism,
  • preferential,
  • poison,
  • alienation,
  • exploitation,
  • inequity,
  • maltreatment,
  • Elder Abuse,
  • rejection,
  • killer instinct,
  • free ride,
  • savagery,
  • Implacability,
  • injustice,
  • cynicism,
  • harassment,
  • self-interest,
  • bullying,
  • imbalance,
  • acidity.
  •
  • favored,
  • excess,
  • evil,
  • bestiality,
  • partiality.
  •
  • favor.
  •brutality
  • atrocity.
  •Other relevant words:
  • damage,
  • beastliness,
  • perversity,
  • roughness,
  • exigency,
  • frenzy,
  • malevolence,
  • inexorability,
  • coldheartedness,
  • evil-doing,
  • ruffianism,
  • inclemency,
  • heinousness,
  • flagitiousness,
  • ferociousness,
  • rigourousness,
  • unyieldingness,
  • wantonness,
  • banemalenty,
  • malignancy,
  • injury,
  • rigidity,
  • austerity,
  • bloody-mindedness,
  • inexorableness,
  • rigour,
  • horror,
  • bloodlust,
  • Diablerie,
  • evil eye,
  • passion,
  • vivisection,
  • violence,
  • cannibalism,
  • heart of stone,
  • obdurateness,
  • Malefaction,
  • cloven foot,
  • severeness,
  • infamy,
  • enormity,
  • dictatorship,
  • domination,
  • stringency,
  • fastidiousness,
  • iniquity,
  • Immanity,
  • abrasiveness,
  • obduracy,
  • maliciousness,
  • gracelessness,
  • hardness,
  • devilishness,
  • vehemence,
  • bloodthirst,
  • brutalness,
  • short shrift,
  • Bloodiness,
  • Abusiveness,
  • rigorousness,
  • remorselessness,
  • tender mercies,
  • unforgivingness,
  • scratchiness,
  • fury,
  • strictness,
  • vandalism,
  • devilry,
  • coercion,
  • harm,
  • villainy,
  • Flintiness,
  • stiffness,
  • inhumanness,
  • wrongdoing,
  • Ferity,
  • sternness,
  • rigor,
  • Cruelties,
  • inhumaneness,
  • atrociousness.

Paraphrases for Cruelty:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    ruthlessness, harshness.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    cruel, ill-treatment.
  • Proper noun, singular
    cruel, ill-treatment.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    cruel, ill-treatment.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    brutality, barbarity, inhumanity, atrocity, savagery, barbarism.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    brutal, harsh, ill-treated, ruthless, abusive.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    torture.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    ferocity, wickedness, severity, violence, meanness.

Antonyms for Cruelty:

• n.

  • brutality, harshness
    gentility, love, charity, mercy, compassion, kindness, feeling, thoughtfulness, consideration, niceness.
  • Other antonyms:
    clemency, mercifulness, warmness, warmth, kindheartedness, charitableness, benignity, pity, tenderness, warmheartedness, good-heartedness, humanity, tenderheartedness, leniency, sympathy, humaneness.

Homophones for Cruelty:

• carload, correlate, cheerlead, curled, correlated, choral ode, coral-wood, charlotte, coralwood, cryolite, cereal oat.

Hypernym for Cruelty:

• n.

  • act
    atrocity, inhumanity, impalement.

Hyponym for Cruelty:

• n.

  • act
    abuse, ill-treatment, maltreatment, ill-usage.