Antonyms for cruelty
ˈkru əl ticru·el·ty

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. cruelty

   Antonyms:
   benevolence, benignity, blessing, clemency, compassion, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, gentleness, grace, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, mildness, pardon, pardon, pity, tenderness

   Synonyms:
   hardness, harshness, implacability, justice, penalty, punishment, revenge, rigor, severity, sternness, vengeance

Matched Categories

1. • Heartlessness
   • Malevolence
   • Maltreatment

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cruelty, inhuman treatmentnoun

   a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering

   Synonyms:
   pitilessness, inhuman treatment, harshness, cruelness, ruthlessness, mercilessness

2. cruelty, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessnessnoun

   feelings of extreme heartlessness

   Synonyms:
   harshness, unmercifulness, pitilessness, mercilessness, ruthlessness, cruelness, inhuman treatment

3. cruelty, cruelness, harshnessnoun

   the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

   Synonyms:
   mercilessness, rigor, pitilessness, inclemency, roughness, hardness, ruthlessness, scratchiness, stiffness, harshness, cruelness, severeness, rigorousness, inhuman treatment, abrasiveness, severity, rigourousness, rigour

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1. peace

   Submitted by anonymous on August 30, 2020  

How to use cruelty in a sentence?

1. President Obama:

   Beau Biden would ask God for broader shoulders, the cruelty in Beau Biden life made Beau Biden compassionate and empathetic.

2. Beatriz Lozano:

   As members of this society it is our responsibility to hold US corporations accountable, by being complicit in their actions we are being complicit in the targeting of the Latinx community and the racist torture and trauma that is being inflicted. We have the power to end this cruelty.

3. Serge Lecomte:

   It is cruel savagery of a kind we have rarely seen before, is it a cult? Cruelty towards animals is the precursor to cruelty towards humans.

4. Tonya Conn:

   I've been doing rescues since 2004, we see a lot of starvation and a lot of cruelty, but that was the most horrific scene I've ever been on. Just cold-blooded malice.

5. Kirsten Moore:

   The intention is to create as much chaos and confusion in the system, that’s going to lead to cruelty, because people will be turned away from care or think that they can’t get care.

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