Word Meanings - CRUELTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak. 2. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act

Additional info about word: CRUELTY

1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak. 2. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain. Cruelties worthy of the dungeons of the Inquisition. Macualay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRUELTY)

• Immunity
• Cruelty
• atrocity
• savagery
• ferocity
• truculence

Related words: (words related to CRUELTY)

• FEROCITY
  Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.
• ATROCITY
  1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty. 2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.
• IMMUNITY
  free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and 1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service;
• TRUCULENCE; TRUCULENCY
  The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.
• SAVAGERY
  1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley. 2. An act of cruelty; barbarity. The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft
• CRUELTY
  1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak. 2. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act