791 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ kɹˈuːəlti], [ kɹˈuːəlti], [ k_ɹ_ˈuː_ə_l_t_i]

Similar words for cruelty:

• ferocity (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• act (noun)
• barbarism (noun)
• barbarity (noun)
• brutality (noun)
• brutality, harshness (noun)
• cruelness (noun)
• cruelty (noun)
• deviltry (noun)
• ill (noun)
• inhumanity (noun)
• oppression (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• painfulness (noun)
• pitilessness (noun)
• sadism (noun)
• spitefulness (noun)
• tyranny (noun)
• vindictiveness (noun)
• violence (noun)
• wrong (noun)
• other synonyms
• brutality
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for cruelty

Homophones for cruelty

Hypernyms for cruelty

Hyponyms for cruelty

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.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • wildness,
  • murderousness.

• 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.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • boorishness,
  • brutality,
  • mercilessness,
  • deviltry,
  • catachresis,
  • savageness,
  • unfeelingness,
  • crudeness,
  • choke hold,
  • localism,
  • ruthlessness,
  • oppression,
  • vulgarism,
  • toughness,
  • vernacularisms,
  • heartlessness,
  • barbarity,
  • brutishness,
  • ill,
  • harshness,
  • barbarism,
  • Vernacularism,
  • sadism,
  • primitive culture,
  • vernacularity,
  • badness,
  • ferocities,
  • sadomasochism,
  • provincialism,
  • malapropisms,
  • callousness,
  • malapropism,
  • coldbloodedness,
  • spitefulness,
  • bloodthirstiness,
  • cold-bloodedness,
  • wrong,
  • uncivilizedness,
  • vindictiveness,
  • inhumanity.
  • 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:
  • ill-use,
  • feature of speech,
  • pervert,
  • ducky,
  • parsimony,
  • genial,
  • cloven hoof,
  • surplusage,
  • backhand,
  • distressingness,
  • overrefinement,
  • sodomy,
  • select,
  • acerbity,
  • dishonour,
  • timber,
  • untimely,
  • exacerbation,
  • expedience,
  • pinch,
  • gruesomeness,
  • lineament,
  • place,
  • extra,
  • seriousness,
  • unpitying,
  • step,
  • sectionalism,
  • sin,
  • traduce,
  • bowelless,
  • provocation,
  • grossness,
  • handling,
  • benignity,
  • uneasiness,
  • adamance,
  • injure,
  • erinyes,
  • prime,
  • putrefaction,
  • chilliness,
  • acerb,
  • scandal,
  • loathsomeness,
  • incorrectly,
  • rape,
  • behavior,
  • amiss,
  • faulty,
  • favourite,
  • smut,
  • emergency,
  • fondness,
  • rascality,
  • haughtiness,
  • legal injury,
  • attitude,
  • unkindness,
  • prefer,
  • offend,
  • envenom,
  • uncivilized,
  • surfeit,
  • saltiness,
  • distortion,
  • torturing,
  • animal nature,
  • scandalise,
  • prickly,
  • attribute,
  • dyspeptic,
  • granularity,
  • biliary,
  • overbearingness,
  • virulent,
  • civil wrong,
  • misuse,
  • uncivilised,
  • development,
  • acrimony,
  • tone,
  • abandon,
  • mischievousness,
  • opportunism,
  • ravish,
  • appall,
  • intervention,
  • characteristic,
  • revulsion,
  • aching,
  • domineeringness,
  • unseasonable,
  • hardship,
  • distastefulness,
  • preferred,
  • pine,
  • mental attitude,
  • posture,
  • nimiety,
  • dun,
  • poorly,
  • repugnance,
  • austereness,
  • sick,
  • position,
  • unaffected,
  • acrid,
  • zooerasty,
  • conduct,
  • act of terrorism,
  • zooerastia,
  • prize,
  • indentation,
  • shout,
  • supernumerary,
  • luridness,
  • self-seeking,
  • authoritarianism,
  • commonness,
  • deary,
  • bristly,
  • quality,
  • bitch,
  • force,
  • cogency,
  • out of it,
  • suffering,
  • choppiness,
  • rancour,
  • rough water,
  • conquest,
  • mistreat,
  • scathe,
  • twisting,
  • pet,
  • rudeness,
  • favour,
  • roguery,
  • excruciation,
  • mischief,
  • annoying,
  • rag,
  • low temperature,
  • discrimination,
  • contrariness,
  • holding,
  • unjustness,
  • inflexibleness,
  • frustrate,
  • licentiousness,
  • opprobrium,
  • poisonous substance,
  • coolness,
  • privilege,
  • awkwardness,
  • front-runner,
  • ill-timed,
  • revilement,
  • pain,
  • livery,
  • tartness,
  • delirium,
  • pitiless,
  • malignance,
  • fierce,
  • sort,
  • emphasis,
  • sliminess,
  • nonchalance,
  • clumsiness,
  • evilness,
  • raggedness,
  • splenetic,
  • frigidity,
  • dishonor,
  • impassiveness,
  • savage,
  • clapperclaw,
  • primitiveness,
  • shabbiness,
  • love,
  • ailment,
  • favouritism,
  • self-consciousness,
  • turpitude,
  • blustery,
  • passionateness,
  • validity,
  • awry,
  • pique,
  • feature,
  • craze,
  • self-centeredness,
  • bedevil,
  • property,
  • acid,
  • yearn,
  • dark,
  • molestation,
  • villainousness,
  • egocentrism,
  • crudity,
  • vulgarity,
  • unemotionality,
  • demeanour,
  • wrongful conduct,
  • discriminatory,
  • filth,
  • scandalize,
  • character,
  • intimidation,
  • asymmetry,
  • acidulousness,
  • summary treatment,
  • jaundice,
  • corruption,
  • phlegm,
  • tightfistedness,
  • arrogance,
  • redundant,
  • bad,
  • incorrect,
  • lordliness,
  • senseless,
  • form,
  • profane,
  • superfluous,
  • mastery,
  • minginess,
  • vicious,
  • hooliganism,
  • compulsion,
  • gaucheness,
  • dearie,
  • violate,
  • obscenity,
  • equipment casualty,
  • niggardliness,
  • primitivism,
  • impairment,
  • sourness,
  • diagonal,
  • trauma,
  • stamina,
  • objectionableness,
  • deportment,
  • ungracefulness,
  • huskiness,
  • asperity,
  • self-concern,
  • price,
  • perverseness,
  • using,
  • malevolent,
  • strenuousness,
  • madness,
  • scandalization,
  • malefic,
  • behaviour,
  • actus reus,
  • acuity,
  • sulfurous,
  • sharpness,
  • pitting,
  • misconduct,
  • inclementness,
  • nonindulgence,
  • indignation,
  • discourse,
  • haywire,
  • obnoxiousness,
  • feature article,
  • badgering,
  • excruciate,
  • tightness,
  • caesarism,
  • spiritlessness,
  • excitation,
  • caustic,
  • preferent,
  • rigidness,
  • fancy,
  • tweediness,
  • wretchedness,
  • blistering,
  • discussion,
  • emotionlessness,
  • preconception,
  • egoism,
  • inauspicious,
  • shogunate,
  • darkness,
  • timbre,
  • surplus,
  • sulphurous,
  • wrongfulness,
  • terrorist act,
  • rage,
  • onerousness,
  • annoyance,
  • nubbiness,
  • shenanigan,
  • best-loved,
  • disaffection,
  • curse,
  • furiousness,
  • feature film,
  • keenness,
  • calibre,
  • doings,
  • caliber,
  • nastiness,
  • smart,
  • repulsiveness,
  • ghastliness,
  • excessiveness,
  • tenderness,
  • supremacy,
  • appal,
  • darling,
  • predetermine,
  • parsimoniousness,
  • hurt,
  • callosity,
  • forgivingness,
  • asceticism,
  • sour,
  • partisanship,
  • prop,
  • atrabilious,
  • outrageousness,
  • vilification,
  • staying power,
  • unconstraint,
  • ugliness,
  • overindulgence,
  • dirty word,
  • botheration,
  • apathy,
  • supererogatory,
  • unconcern,
  • ruggedness,
  • ominous,
  • victimization,
  • indiscernible,
  • insult,
  • drag through the mud,
  • instability,
  • scandalisation,
  • temper,
  • innervation,
  • heat,
  • vexation,
  • vileness,
  • iciness,
  • desecrate,
  • naughtiness,
  • bitter,
  • trait,
  • terms,
  • fierceness,
  • accidental injury,
  • wrongly,
  • malicious mischief,
  • combat injury,
  • malaprop,
  • closeness,
  • error,
  • meanness,
  • unfairness,
  • improper,
  • bruise,
  • eumenides,
  • cold,
  • roguishness,
  • woe,
  • dimension,
  • numbness,
  • warmth,
  • disorderliness,
  • thorniness,
  • undetectable,
  • stolidity,
  • gall,
  • cacoethes,
  • absolutism,
  • barbarian,
  • heaviness,
  • demeanor,
  • unbalance,
  • treatment,
  • mania,
  • lousiness,
  • worrying,
  • boast,
  • belongings,
  • shock,
  • badly,
  • stalinism,
  • estrangement,
  • blackguard,
  • subjugation,
  • crucify,
  • astringent,
  • yen,
  • variety,
  • wound,
  • device characteristic,
  • inordinateness,
  • bitchiness,
  • liverish,
  • badmouth,
  • assault,
  • spare,
  • impassivity,
  • have,
  • resentment,
  • tolerant,
  • bad weather,
  • party favor,
  • suffer,
  • toxicant,
  • straining,
  • hysteria,
  • choice,
  • bedevilment,
  • witchcraft,
  • wild,
  • ill-treat,
  • prejudice,
  • chokehold,
  • sport,
  • contumely,
  • repulsion,
  • exasperation,
  • victimisation,
  • overabundance,
  • degeneracy,
  • formidability,
  • vitriolic,
  • burdensomeness,
  • complaint,
  • uncouthness,
  • conquering,
  • graininess,
  • maltreat,
  • monocracy,
  • rack,
  • totalitarianism,
  • rowdiness,
  • discomfort,
  • languish,
  • one-man rule,
  • nefariousness,
  • rowdyism,
  • immorality.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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
    harshness, ruthlessness.

• 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
    atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, brutality, inhumanity, savagery.

• Independent

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

• Other Related

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

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.