► 形容詞
酷い [(2)むごい] meaning: cruel rank: 2
☆ 動物にこんな酷い事をする人間が何故いるのが理解出来ない ⇨ I cannot fathom why there are people who do such cruel things to animals (☛ About people or things)
えぐい [(2)えぐい] [coll] [peer] meaning: cruel rank: 3
☆ あの会社はエグイやり方で人を切る ⇨ That company cuts people in cruel ways
► 形容動詞
残虐 [ざんぎゃく] meaning: cruel rank: 2
☆ 彼等は多数の民間人を残虐に殺した ⇨ They brutally killed many civilians (☛ About people who harm others cruelly)
残酷 [ざんこく] meaning: cruel rank: 2
☆ 残酷な独裁者 ⇨ A cruel dictator
☆ 残酷な運命 ⇨ A cruel fate
苛酷 [かこく] meaning: cruel rank: 3
☆ 彼等は苛酷な労働を強いられた ⇨ They were forced into cruelly hard labor (☛ Extreme hardship)
残忍 [ざんにん] meaning: cruel rank: 3
☆ 残忍な独裁者 ⇨ A cruel, brutal, sadistic, dictator (☛ About people who harm others cruelly)
罪 [(1)つみ] meaning: cruel rank: 3
☆ その気もないのに彼女を誘うなんて罪なことをするな ⇨ Don’t commit a crime, be so cruel, to ask her out when you’re not really interested in her (☛ Hurt someone’s feelings with frivolous actions)
非情 [ひじょう] meaning: cruel rank: 3
☆ 運命は時として非情だ ⇨ Fates are sometimes very cruel (☛ Literally merciless. More often than not about circumstances)
冷酷 [れいこく] meaning: cruel rank: 3
☆ 冷酷な独裁者 ⇨ A cruel dictator (☛ Literally “cold and cruel’. Cruel and unsympathetic)
酷 [(1)こく] meaning: cruel rank: 4
☆ 彼はなんて酷な仕打ちをするんだろう ⇨ What a cruel treatment he dishes out