• adj.
    ⦿(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
    lexical concept
  • Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
  • a barbarous crime
  • a savage slap
  • brutal beatings
  • cruel tortures
  • vicious kicks

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:barbarous
  2. enl:brutal
  3. enl:cruel
  4. enl:fell
  5. enl:roughshod
  6. enl:savage
  7. enl:vicious
wn:interlingual indexili:i6906
wn:eq synonymdn:grusom§1

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • barbarousbrutalcruelfellroughshodsavagevicious
  • cruelfell