cruel
英 [krʊəl]
美['kruəl]
- adj. 残酷的，残忍的；使人痛苦的，让人受难的；无情的，严酷的
英英释意
- 1. lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy
- 2. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;
- "a barbarous crime"
- "brutal beatings"
- "cruel tortures"
- "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"
- "a savage slap"
- "vicious kicks"
- 3. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain;
- "brutal instruments of torture"
- "cruel weapons of war"
- 4. used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause suffering;
- "brutal weather"
- "northern winters can be cruel"
- "a cruel world"
- "a harsh climate"
- "a rigorous climate"
- "unkind winters"
