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''cruel'' - perhaps the best paraphrase, in the vocabulary of the play, is "unkind."  ("More than kin and less than kind," was Hamlet's first line in the play.)  The word ''cruel'' is from Latin 'crudelis' ("unfeeling;" "hard-hearted.")  In the Closet Scene, Scene 11, Hamlet will make a reference to Gertrude as "hard-hearted."  So, Hamlet means unsympathetic; hard-hearted; unkind.
 
''cruel'' - perhaps the best paraphrase, in the vocabulary of the play, is "unkind."  ("More than kin and less than kind," was Hamlet's first line in the play.)  The word ''cruel'' is from Latin 'crudelis' ("unfeeling;" "hard-hearted.")  In the Closet Scene, Scene 11, Hamlet will make a reference to Gertrude as "hard-hearted."  So, Hamlet means unsympathetic; hard-hearted; unkind.
  
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