brutal

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adjective

1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering (Freq. 1)
- a barbarous crime
- brutal beatings
- cruel tortures
- Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
- a savage slap
- vicious kicks
• Syn:
barbarous, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
• Similar to:
inhumane
• Derivationally related forms:
viciousness (for: vicious), savage (for: savage), savageness (for: savage), cruelness (for: cruel), brutality, barbarousness (for: barbarous)
2. harsh
- the brutal summer sun
- a brutal winter
• Syn:
unrelenting
• Similar to:
intense
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, brutish
• Similar to:
inhumane
• Derivationally related forms:
brutalize, bestialize (for: bestial), beast (for: bestial), bestiality (for: bestial), beast (for: beastly), beastliness (for: beastly)
4. disagreeably direct and precise
- he spoke with brutal honesty
• Similar to:
direct

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, unrelenting, barbarous, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious