Vocabulary
Cruel
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
wilfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it.
Urdu meaning
سنگدل، ظالم، ظالمانہ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
-
A cruel, busy world showers durable praise on statesthat earn it through progress and peace.
Dawn Editorials —
Struggling at home
— 2026-04-28
-
In fact, the Iranians themselves have been experiencing such pain for decades because of cruel US-led sanctions.
Dawn Editorials —
Calm, for now
— 2026-04-09
-
Thirty years ago, in 1996, he alarmed a joint session of the US Congress with: `The most dangerous regime is Iran, that has wed a cruel despotism to a fanatic militancy.
Dawn Editorials —
Lions and lambs
— 2026-04-02
-
Not because she doesn`t deserve defending she does, frequently, from attacks that are nakedly misogynistic, cruel in ways her male counterparts simply do not experience.
Dawn Editorials —
Flying high
— 2026-03-01
-
Lives remain suspended in a cruel limbo.The CM`s claim that new legal frameworks, detention rules and witness protection laws will end enforced disappearances from Feb 1 is welcome in principle.
Dawn Editorials —
Lives suspended
— 2026-01-24
Synonyms
brutal, savage, inhuman, barbaric, barbarous, brutish, bloodthirsty, murderous
Antonyms
compassionate, merciful
Curator example
“people who are cruel to animals”
More vocabulary to explore
About this vocabulary section.
These entries support close reading of Dawn editorials and opinion pieces: short definitions,
Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
so you can see tone and usage.
Common questions
- Do I need to sign up to use this vocabulary page?
- No. Word pages are open to everyone. You can read meanings in English and Urdu, synonyms and antonyms, and example sentences without creating an account.
- Where do the example sentences come from?
- When available, example sentences are drawn from cached matches in our Dawn editorial corpus so you can see how a word is used in real newsroom-style prose.
- How is this different from a dictionary?
- This section is curated for students preparing for competitive exams and editorial reading. Entries are compact, often include Urdu glosses, and are paired with in-context lines from editorials when we have them.
