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Brutal

Brutal Meaning & Definition
Brutal Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Brutal?

[adj] (of circumstances; especially weather) causing suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters"
[adj] (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"
[adj] (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Brutal: barbarous | cruel | fell | hard | harsh | inhumane | rigorous | roughshod | savage | unkind | vicious

Related Terms | Find terms related to Brutal: abominable | abstruse | Adamic | animal | animalian | animalic | animalistic | anthropophagous | arduous | arrant | atrocious | awful | baneful | barbarian | barbaric | barbarous | base | beastlike | beastly | beneath contempt | bestial | bitter | blameworthy | bloodthirsty | bloody | bloody-minded | bodily | boorish | brutalized | brute | brutelike | brutish | cannibalistic | carnal | carnal-minded | Circean | coarse | cold-blooded | complex | contemptible | crass | critical | crude | cruel | cruel-hearted | deadly | death-bringing | deathful | deathly | delicate | demanding | demoniac | demoniacal | deplorable | despicable | destructive | detestable | devilish | diabolic | difficile | difficult | dire | disgusting | Draconian | dreadful | dumb | earthy | egregious | enormous | exacting | fallen | fatal | fell | feral | ferine | ferocious | fetid | fiendish | fiendlike | fierce | filthy | flagrant | fleshly | formidable | foul | fulsome | Gothic | grievous | gross | hairy | hard | hard-earned | hard-fought | harsh | hateful | heartless | heinous | hellish | Herculean | horrible | horrid | ill-bred | ill-mannered | impolite | inclement | infamous | infernal | inhuman | inhumane | insensitive | instinctive | instinctual | intemperate | internecine | intricate | jawbreaking | kill-crazy | killing | knotted | knotty | laborious | lamentable | lapsed | lethal | loathsome | lousy | malign | malignant | material | materialistic | mean | merciless | mindless | monstrous | mortal | murderous | nasty | Neanderthal | nefarious | no picnic | noisome | noncivilized | nonrational | nonspiritual | not easy | notorious | obnoxious | odious | offensive | operose | orgiastic | outlandish | outrageous | pernicious | physical | pitiable | pitiful | pitiless | postlapsarian | primitive | rank | regrettable | remorseless | reprehensible | repulsive | rigorous | rotten | rough | rough-and-ready | rude | rugged | rustic | ruthless | sad | sadistic | sanguinary | sanguineous | satanic | savage | scandalous | schlock | scurvy | set with thorns | severe | shabby | shameful | sharkish | shocking | shoddy | slavering | sordid | spiny | squalid | steep | strenuous | subhuman | swinish | tameless | Tartarean | terrible | thorny | ticklish | toilsome | too bad | tough | tricky | troglodytic | truculent | unchristian | uncivil | uncivilized | unclean | uncombed | uncouth | uncultivated | uncultured | unfeeling | ungentle | unhuman | unkempt | unkind | unlicked | unpolished | unrefined | unspiritual | unsympathetic | untamed | uphill | vicious | vile | villainous | virulent | wicked | wild | woeful | wolfish | worst | worthless | wretched | zoic | zooidal | zoologic

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Brutal In Webster's Dictionary

\Bru"tal\, a. [Cf. F. brutal. See {Brute}, a.] 1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. ``Above the rest of brutal kind.'' --Milton. 2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. ``Brutal intemperance.'' --Macaulay.

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