What is another word for cruelty?
791 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ kɹˈuːəlti], [ kɹˈuːəlti], [ k_ɹ_ˈuː_ə_l_t_i]
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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)
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.
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- Brutalities,
- abuse.
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- truculence,
- kind,
- favorite,
- bias,
- truculency.
- localisms,
- mis usage,
- un-civilizedness,
- mis-usages,
- mis usages,
- uncivilizednesses,
- vernacularities,
- un-civilizednesses,
- provincialisms,
- catachresises,
- primitive cultures,
- un civilizednesses,
- un civilizedness,
- mis-usage.
- 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.
- depravity,
- severity,
- fiendishness,
- Hard-heartedness,
- coarseness,
- insensitiveness,
- masochism,
- torture,
- spite.
- 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.
- coldbloodednesses,
- in humanities,
- callousnesses,
- in humanity,
- cold bloodedness,
- heartlessnesses,
- cold-bloodednesses,
- in-humanity,
- cold bloodednesses,
- in-humanities.
- 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.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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- favored,
- excess,
- evil,
- bestiality,
- partiality.
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- favor.
- 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.
- 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:
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
harshness, ruthlessness.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Forward Entailment
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Adjective
cruel, ill-treatment.
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Proper noun, singular
cruel, ill-treatment.
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Noun, singular or mass
cruel, ill-treatment.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Independent
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Adjective
abusive, brutal, harsh, ill-treated, ruthless.
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Noun, singular or mass
torture.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
ferocity, meanness, severity, violence, wickedness.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Cruelty:
- carload, correlate, cheerlead, curled, correlated, choral ode, coral-wood, charlotte, coralwood, cryolite, cereal oat.
Hypernym for Cruelty:
n.
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act
atrocity, inhumanity, impalement.
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act
Hyponym for Cruelty:
n.
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act
abuse, ill-treatment, maltreatment, ill-usage.
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act
Word of the Day
wrong-way
- Synonyms:
- reversed, counter, reflex, reversed.
Nearby words
- cruelness
- cruelnesses
- crueltier
- Cruelties
- crueltiest
- Cruelty
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