Dictionary entry

Crueller

Pronunciation: /kru:ǝl/ adj (-ller, -llest )

Pronunciation

/kru:ǝl/ adj (-ller, -llest )

Myanmar Meaning

(derog ) ~ (to sb/ sth) ရက်စက်သော။ ကြမ်းကြုတ်သော။ ညှဉ်းပန်းသော။ အနာတရဖြစ်စေသော။ ကိုယ်စိတ် ဆင်းရဲစေသော။ မညှာတာသော။

Definition

cruel /kru:ǝl/ adj ( -ller, -llest ) ၁။ ( derog ) ~ (to sb/ sth) ရက္စက္ေသာ။ ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္ေသာ။ ညႇဥ္းပန္းေသာ။ a cruel boss/ master/ dictator ❍ Don't be cruel to animals. ❍ His eyes were cruel and hard. ❍ Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind (ie make sb suffer because they will benefit from this later). ၂။ အနာတရျဖစ္ေစေသာ။ ကိုယ္စိတ္ ဆင္းရဲေစေသာ။ မညႇာတာေသာ။ a cruel blow/ punishment/ joke/ fate ❍ cruel (ie bad) luck ❍ War is cruel. ❏ cruelly /'kru:ǝli/ adv ရက္ရက္စက္စက္။ အၾကင္နာမဲ့စြာ။ မညႇာမတာ။ The dog had been cruelly treated. ❍ I was cruelly deceived.

Examples

  1. A cruel parent
  2. [cruel to] : How could you be so cruel to someone who never did you any harm?
  3. She had a cruel look in her eyes.
  4. A cruel sense of humour
  5. It’s a cruel world.
  6. [a cruel blow] : Closing the school would be a cruel blow to this community.