酷

Meaning

酷 centers on harshness and extreme severity: cruelty, injustice, and atrocious treatment. It describes actions or conditions that are excessively severe and unfair.

• 酷いひどい
  N4

  cruel; heartless; hard; harsh; severe

• 残酷ざんこく
  N1

  cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman

• 過酷かこく
  N1

  severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous

• 酷こく

  severe; harsh; stringent; rigorous; strict; unfair

• 冷酷れいこく
  N1

  cruelty; coldheartedness; relentless; ruthless

• 酷使こくし

  exploitation; overuse; abuse

• 酷評こくひょう

  severe criticism; sharp criticism; scathing criticism; diatribe; panning

• 酷似こくじ

  resembling closely; being strikingly similar; bearing a strong likeness

• 酷暑こくしょ

  intense heat; severe heat

• こっ酷いこっぴどい

  (really) terrible; awful; (very) nasty; (extremely) harsh; severe

• 酷くひどく

  terribly; awfully; dreadfully; extremely; severely; very (much)

• 酷寒こっかん

  severe cold; intense cold; bitter cold

• 冷酷無情れいこくむじょう

  cruel and heartless; merciless; implacable

• 冷酷無残れいこくむざん

  cruel and heartless; merciless; implacable; cold-blooded

• 厳酷げんこく

  severity; rigor; rigour

• 峻酷しゅんこく

  severe (personality); unaffected by love

• 惨酷さんこく

  atrocity; cruelty; brutality

• 残忍冷酷ざんにんれいこく

  atrocious and cold-blooded; cruel; brutal; merciless

• 残忍酷薄ざんにんこくはく

  cruel; heartless; brutal; atrocious

• 残酷焼ざんこくやき

  live broiling of shellfish

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