(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
English: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
Bahasa: dahsyat, azab, zalim, buas, teruk, bengis, Sangat Kejam, menyayat hati
kejamBahasa Indonesia
atrocious, savage, unholy, vicious, amok
Common
#3,143 of the corpus · 33.9 per million words · 144,762 occurrences
From jam (ke-) · very common, #237
Adjective
Provoking horror
English: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly
Bahasa: buruk, rendah, mengerikan, menakutkan, kotor, dahsyat, menyeramkan, keji
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Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
English: oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous
Bahasa: zalim
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12 more adjective senses
Shockingly brutal or cruel
English: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous
Bahasa: mengerikan, menyedihkan, dahsyat, menyeramkan, keterlaluan, bengis
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Extremely evil or cruel, expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
English: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy
Bahasa: jahat, iblis, setan, syaitan, menyusahkan, pengacau, Iblis
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Lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion, this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"
English: inhumane
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Without compunction or human feeling
English: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate
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Lacking kindness
English: unkind
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Having or showing no mercy
English: merciless, unmerciful
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Without mercy or pity
English: pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unpitying
Bahasa: zalim
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Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
English: dour, forbidding, grim
Bahasa: serius, garang, bengis
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Frenzied as if possessed by a demon
English: amuck, amok, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed(p)
Bahasa: mengamuk
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Emotionally hardened
English: callous, indurate, pachydermatous
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Marked by deep ill will, deliberately harmful
English: poisonous, venomous, vicious
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Having committed unrighteous acts
English: sinful, unholy, wicked
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Noun
Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
English: cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness
Bahasa: jahat, kejahatan, jahanam, kekejian
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A cruelly rapacious person
English: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat
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