Synonyms for sadistic
- adjective
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All synonyms
Adjective
1. Cruel — delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others
cruel, brutal, ruthless, diabolical, barbarous, vicious, savage, inhuman, diabolic, spiteful, nasty, demonic, truculent, fell, merciless, brutish, barbaric, remorseless, pitiless, unmerciful, malicious, wolfish
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.
Related words
- Word family
- sadisticness sadism
Example sentences
- cruel I think it is cruel to trap animals for fur coats.
- brutal The city was ruined by the brutal force of nature.
- ruthless The gang is lead by a ruthless criminal called Tom.
- diabolical To err is human, but to persist is diabolical.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| sadistic | rising | |
| cruel | rising | |
| brutal | rising | |
| ruthless | rising | |
| diabolical | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- fell1
- 5 letters
- nasty2, cruel2
- 6 letters
- brutal2, savage2
- 7 letters
- vicious2, inhuman3, demonic3, brutish2, wolfish
- 8 letters
- ruthless2, barbaric3, spiteful2, pitiless3, diabolic
- 9 letters
- malicious3, merciless3, barbarous3, truculent3
- 10 letters
- diabolical5, unmerciful4
- 11 letters
- remorseless3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (nasty2 = 2 syllables).