Cruel vs Unusual - What's the difference?
cruel | unusual |
Not nice; mean; heartless.
(slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
Unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm.
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, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
Not usual.
As adjectives the difference between cruel and unusual
is that cruel is not nice; mean; heartless while unusual is unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm.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.