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Lemma: krūra (adj)
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Temporal probability mass distribution
cruel (MW)
disagreeable (MW)
ferocious (MW)
hard (MW)
harsh (MW)
hot (MW)
inauspicious (MW)
sharp (MW)
solid (MW)
sore (MW)
strong (MW)
wounded (MW)
Topic
Frequency
war
57
Mahābhārata
17
Soma sacrifice
14
King, rājanīti
13
animal sacrifice, paśubandha
12
āpyāyana
8
varṇas, castes
6
Indra
5
Moral literature
5
darśapūrṇamāsa iṣṭi, full-moon sacrifice
5
narrative literature
5
Prophesy
5
prāyaścitta
5
spoons
5
dharma
5
Kāmaśāstra
5
yuga theory
5
vapā, omentum, Netzhaut
4
Kalki(n)
4
Sunda and Upasunda
4
penance, prāyaścitta
4
mantra
4
agnihotra
4
fable
4
Palmistry
3
bahiṣpavamāna, out-of-doors laud
3
agniṣṭoma
3
Genealogies
3
ariṣṭa, riṣṭa, kālavijñāna
3
mixture of castes, varṇasaṃkara
3
linguistic speculation
3
Astronomy
3
praise of Viṣṇu (namas)
3
Dharmaśāstra
3
Ordeal
3
Politics
3
Medicine
3
gṛhastha, householder
3
(Im-)purity
3
Kashmirian Shivaism
3
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism
3
somakraya, buying Soma
2
Agriculture
2
against enemies, armies, weapons
2
caturhotra, caturhotṛ, caturhotar
2
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca
2
Names of Śiva, sahasranāman
2
rājasūya
2
Behaviour, strīdharma
2
vaśā
2
agnyupasthāna
2
sacrificial post, yūpa
2
friendship
2
nāḍīvijñāna
2
Grammar
2
karman doctrine
2
Himālaya
2
Alchemy
2
cow
2
Bhakti
2
Sagara, Sāgara
2
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha
2
marriage, wedding
2
Zoology
2
sāman
2
for success, authority
2
dāna, giving
2
Kṛṣṇa and the Gopīs
2
daśahotra
2
against sorcery
1
high position of Brahmins
1
Nara-Nārāyaṇa
1
sorcery
1
Prajāpati
1
Vena
1
raising the yūpa
1
against rivals
1
placing the somakalaśa
1
āplavana
1
paryagnikaraṇa
1
paridhi enclosings
1
twelve-day Soma rite, dvādaśāha
1
uktha
1
pṛṣṭha
1
jyotiṣṭoma
1
gavām ayana, gavāmayana
1
Police
1
for political power
1
nirūḍhapaśubandha
1
altar, vedi
1
agnicayana
1
vapāhoma
1
upanayana, initiation
1
kāmyeṣṭi
1
brahmagavī
1
mahāvrata
1
Paraśurāma
1
Birth, childhood, and youth
1
Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya
1
Cosmology
1
Love
1
Prostitution
1
Tripura
1
Creation of the world
1
war and rivalry of Devas and Asuras
1
Nosology
1
Brideship and marriage
1
Cosmogony (gen.)
1
saṃskāras
1
Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman
1
Women
1
Time
1
Criminal law
1
Law
1
Buddhism
1
Pashupata Shaivism
1
hathayoga
1
vānaprastha
1
Shivaism, Śiva
1
snāna, bathing
1
kṣatradharma
1
Vasiṣṭha
1
theft, stealing
1
Yayāti, Devayānī, Śarmiṣṭhā
1
Pṛthu and the Earth
1
fighting
1
hunting
1
aśvamedha, hayamedha
1
bad behaviour
1
Tāraka
1
pretakārya, rituals for the dead, funeral rites
1
army
1
botany, plants
1
Administration
1
fever, jvara, takman
1
subhāṣita
1
Crime
1
śrāddha
1
Kṣatriya
1
sahasranāman
1
Brahmin
1
dīkṣā
1
study, śiṣya, adhyāya
1
Pūru
1
Concept Notes Count
cruel lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy 24
barbarous (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" 4
harsh extremely unkind or cruel; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant" 2
inauspicious not auspicious; boding ill 2
hard not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated; "hard as rock" 1
ferocious marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" 1
ill presaging ill-fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley;"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government" 1
Collocations