'Brutal' definitions:
Definition of 'brutal'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(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]
adjective
Harsh; "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter" [syn: brutal, unrelenting]
adjective
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]
adjective
Disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal honesty"
Definition of 'Brutal'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'brutal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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