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brutal
brutal
3 definitions found
for brutal
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Brutal \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. [1913 Webster] 2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal intemperance." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
brutal
adj 1: (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" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell,
roughshod, savage, vicious]
2: harsh; "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter" [syn:
brutal, unrelenting]
3: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull
and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn:
beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal]
4: disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal
honesty"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
242 Moby Thesaurus words for "brutal":
Adamic, Circean, Draconian, Gothic, Herculean, Neanderthal,
Tartarean, abominable, abstruse, 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, 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, dreadful, dumb, earthy, egregious, enormous,
exacting, fallen, fatal, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fetid,
fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, filthy, flagrant, fleshly, formidable,
foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, hairy, hard, hard-earned,
hard-fought, harsh, hateful, heartless, heinous, hellish, 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,
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, 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