Definition of Brutal

Adjective

• disagreeably direct and precise
  "he spoke with brutal honesty"
  
• resembling a beast
  showing lack of human sensibility
  "beastly desires"
  "a bestial nature"
  "brute force"
  "a dull and brutish man"
  "bestial treatment of prisoners"
  beastly bestial brute brutish
• harsh
  "the brutal summer sun"
  "a brutal winter"
  unrelenting
• (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"
  barbarous cruel fell roughshod savage vicious

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