Cruel

·noun ·see Crewel.

II. Cruel ·adj Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

III. Cruel ·adj Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

IV. Cruel ·adj Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.