Brutal
['bruːt(ə)l] or ['brutl]
Definition
(adj.) disagreeably direct and precise; 'he spoke with brutal honesty' .
(adj.) harsh; 'the brutal summer sun'; 'a brutal winter' .
Edited by Beverly--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.
(a.) Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.
Edited by Albert
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Savage, ferocious, cruel, inhuman, unfeeling, barbarous, barbarian, fell, barbaric, ruthless, truculent, bloody, brutish, brute.[2]. Churlish, gruff, bearish, harsh, uncivil, rude, rough, impolite, unmannerly, BRUSQUE, ungentlemanly.[3]. Gross, coarse, sensual, carnal, brutish, beastly, bestial.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Savage, inhuman, rude, unfeeling, merciless, ruthless, brutish, barbarous,sensual, beastly, ignorant, stolid, dense, cruel, violent, vindictive,bloodthirsty, intemperate
ANT:Humane, civilized, generous, intelligent, polished, chivalrous, conscientious,self-controlled
Typist: Oliver
Examples
- Was he alone, that long night, whose brave, loving spirit was bearing up, in that old shed, against buffeting and brutal stripes? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was the work of this brutal ruffian whom he had the misfortune to employ. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was brutal to you: you hated him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Her attitude toward the captive was most harsh and brutal. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- At least it must be owned, that heroic virtue, being as unusual, is as little natural as the most brutal barbarity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He is a mean, low, brutal fellow! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is of some comfort to know that this brutal use of the rope is being replaced by more humane methods of ending the lives of condemned criminals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He declared that the foreign bodies were ugly, nasty, brutal. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It is ugly and brutal. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A perfect type of the strongly masculine, unmarred by dissipation, or brutal or degrading passions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In the head and face every organ and lineament expressive of brutal and unhesitating violence was in a state of the highest possible development. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Yet who does not feel its isolation in that brutal city? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Behind us we left the stricken city in the fierce and brutal clutches of some forty thousand green warriors of the lesser hordes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It is brutal, the woman said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Sometimes he wished that he had never known Eustacia, immediately to retract the wish as brutal. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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