Of a fierce, savage, or violent disposition or character; stern, truculent. Obsolete.

Of a person, a person's disposition, etc.: cruel, harsh; given to violence or severity; (of an animal) savage, uncontrollable.

(a) Odious, detestable. (b) Full of hatred; malevolent, malicious; hostile. (c) Cruel; fierce; deadly.

Of persons or animals: Fierce, cruel, savage or harsh in disposition or action. Also, in weaker sense, daring, determined, bold. Occasionally const…

Difficult to bear; requiring great endurance; causing or involving (undue) suffering; cruel; grim.

Of persons (also transferred and figurative of things): Disposed to inflict suffering; indifferent to or taking pleasure in another's pain or…

Cruel; exhibiting ill-will, or bitter enmity, malevolent.

Of a person, an action, etc.: cruel, brutal, violent.

? Cruel, ? hostile.

Rough; fierce, violent, cruel; severe; keen, eager.

Fierce, savage (chiefly of beasts); cruel; harsh (to a person). Obsolete.

Characterized by, arising from, vengeance or revenge; cruel, dreadful.

Cruel, fierce; cherishing ill-will; malignant, malicious; spiteful.

Cruel, inhumane. Obsolete.

Spiteful, malevolent, cruel; passing gradually into the sense: Pitiless, merciless, dispiteous, adj.

Bloody; figurative cruel.

= felon, adj. 1.

depreciative. Reminiscent or characteristic of the rule of Herod the Great's dynasty in ancient Palestine (see sense B. 1b); spec. (with reference to…

= fell, adj.1 (in various senses); esp. cruel, destructive.

Savage, barbarous, uncivilized. Also: made savage or cruel. Now rare.

Characteristic of the Roman emperor Nero; esp. tyrannical, extremely cruel, licentious.

= savage, adj. 5a.

Pertaining to or characteristic of the Elder or Younger Dionysius, tyrants of Syracuse, notorious for cruelty.

Hateful, malevolent, cruel; black-hearted. Also: melancholic, morbid, morose.

Characterized by savage enormity; excessively and wantonly cruel; heinously wicked. of persons or agents.

= Neronian, adj.

= Neronian, adj.