cruelty

Other forms of cruelty

plural

cruelties·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cruelty

What does cruelty mean?

cruelty means "a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cruelty?

cruelty has 2 syllables: cruel-ty. The stress falls on "cruel". In IPA it is /ˈkɹulti/.

What is another word for cruelty?

Close synonyms include inhuman treatment, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, cruelness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cruelty a common word?

cruelty is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.