Cruel vs Egregious - What's the difference?
cruel | egregious | Related terms |
Not nice; mean; heartless.
(slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
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Outrageously bad; shocking.
Cruel is a related term of egregious.
As adjectives the difference between cruel and egregious
is that cruel is not nice; mean; heartless while egregious is exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.As a verb cruel
is to spoil or ruin (one's chance of success).cruel
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.
Synonyms
* brutal * sadistic * viciousAntonyms
* mercifulDerived terms
* cruellyVerb
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The student has made egregious errors on the examination.
- I cannot cross my arms, or sigh "Ah me," / "Ah me forlorn!" egregious foppery! / I cannot buss thy fill, play with thy hair, / Swearing by Jove, "Thou art most debonnaire!"
- My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.
- When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious .