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. 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.

2. Vladimir Nabokov:

   My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

3. Mathew Rosengart:

   Britney Spears testified under oath about James Spears' cruelty and toxic presence in her life, there’s a mountain of evidence mandating his suspension.

4. Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944:

   It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

5. Phaedrus:

   Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

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