[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cruel \cru"el\ krudd"e^l, n.
   see crewel.
   1913 webster
see also:
crewel 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cruel \cru"el\ krudd"e^l, a. f. cruel, fr. l. crudelis,
   fr. crudus. see crude.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

            behold a people cometh from the north country; . . .
            they are cruel and have no mercy.     --jer. vi.
                                                  22,23.
      1913 webster

   2. causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
      1913 webster

            cruel wars, wasting the earth.        --milton.
      1913 webster

            cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their
            wrath for it was cruel.               --gen. xlix.
                                                  7.
      1913 webster

   3. attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
      1913 webster

            you have seen cruel proof of this man's strength.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
crude 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

cruel
     adj 1: lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy syn: unkind
     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" syn: barbarous,
         brutal, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
     3: of weapons or instruments causing suffering and pain;
        "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"
        syn: brutal
     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" syn: brutal, harsh, rigorous,
         unkind
see also:
unkind barbarous brutal fell roughshod savage 
vicious harsh rigorous 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

129 moby thesaurus words for "cruel":
   draconian, tartarean, acute, afflictive, agonizing, animal,
   anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial,
   biting, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bowelless, brutal,
   brutalized, brute, brutish, callous, cannibalistic, cold-blooded,
   cramping, cruel-hearted, cruise, cutthroat, demoniac, demoniacal,
   devilish, diabolic, diabolical, distressing, dog-eat-dog,
   excruciating, fare, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike,
   fierce, flinty, gnawing, go, gory, grave, grim, griping, hard,
   harrowing, harsh, heartless, heinous, hellish, hie, homicidal,
   hurtful, hurting, implacable, inclement, inexorable, infernal,
   inhuman, inhumane, journey, merciless, monstrous, murderous,
   outrageous, painful, paroxysmal, pass, piercing, pitiless,
   poignant, proceed, pungent, push on, racking, red-handed,
   relentless, remorseless, repair, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary,
   sanguineous, satanic, savage, self-destructive, severe, sharkish,
   sharp, shooting, slaughterous, slavering, spasmatic, spasmic,
   spasmodic, stabbing, stinging, subhuman, suicidal, tormenting,
   torturous, travel, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized,
   uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unfeeling, unforgiving, unhuman,
   unkind, unmerciful, unpitiful, unpitying, unremorseful, unsparing,
   unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unyielding, vicious, wend,
   without mercy, wolfish

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