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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
brutal
adj 1: (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain;
"brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of
war" [syn: cruel]
2: (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,
cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious]
3: used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause
suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be
cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous
climate"; "unkind winters" [syn: cruel, harsh, rigorous,
unkind]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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