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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity, savagery |
| Synonyms: | boorishness, brutality, crudeness, cruelty, inhumanity, ruthlessness, savageness, viciousness, vulgarity |
| Antonyms: | kindness |
| Main Entry: | atrocity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelness, offensiveness; widely condemned action |
| Synonyms: | abomination, barbarity, brutality, crime, enormity, evil, horror, infamy, inhumanity, iniquity, monstrosity, offense, outrage, ruthlessness, savagery, viciousness, wrong |
| Antonyms: | kindness, pleasantness |
| Main Entry: | barbarism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity, savagery, especially in speech |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarity, brutality, catachresis, coarseness, corruption, cruelty, impropriety, inhumanity, localism, malapropism, misusage, misuse, primitive culture, provincialism, solecism, uncivilizedness, vernacularism, vernacularity, vulgarism |
| Antonyms: | kindness, praise |
| Main Entry: | brutality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruel treatment |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, choke hold, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, grossness, inhumanity, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, savagery, third degree, unfeelingness, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | gentleness, humaneness, kindness, niceness |
| Main Entry: | cruelty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brutality, harshness |
| Synonyms: | animality, barbarism, barbarity, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, coarseness, coldness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, inhumanity, insensibility, insensitiveness, malice, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, persecution, rancor, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, savagery, severity, spite, spitefulness, torture, truculence, unfeelingness, unkindness, venom, viciousness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | charity, compassion, consideration, feeling, gentility, kindness, mercy, niceness, thoughtfulness |
| Main Entry: | ferocity |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fierceness |
| Synonyms: | barbarity, bloodthirstiness, brutality, cruelty, ferociousness, murderousness, savagery, viciousness, violence, wildness |
| Main Entry: | rudeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impoliteness |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, asperity, audacity, bad manners, barbarity, bluntness, boldness, boorishness, brass, cheek, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, disdain, disrespect, effrontery, grossness, harshness, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, intrusiveness, irritability, misbehavior, nerve*, officiousness, shamelessness, sharpness, tactlessness, ungraciousness, unkindness, unmannerliness, vulgarity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | atrociousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enormity |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, depravity, evilness, heinousness, monstrousness, vileness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | bestiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelty |
| Synonyms: | barbarity, beastliness, brutality, depravity, inhumanity, inhumanness, savagery, truculence, truculency, wickedness |
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