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adj. Extremely ruthless or cruel.

adj. Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.

adj. Harsh; unrelenting: a brutal winter in the Arctic.

adj. Disagreeably precise or penetrating: spoke with brutal honesty.

adj. Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel

adj. Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.

adj. Harsh; unrelenting

adj. Disagreeably precise or penetrating

adj. In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.

adj. Of or pertaining to a brute.

adj. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross.

Pertaining to or resembling a brute; brutish: as, brutal nature; “brutal kind,”

Hence—2. Savage; cruel; inhuman; unfeeling: as, brutal passions; brutal manners.

Rude; harsh; coarse; crude.

=Syn.2. Brutish, Beastly, etc. (see brute); unfeeling, ruthless, rude, rough, gross, merciless, barbarous.

adj. disagreeably direct and precise

adj. harsh

adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

adj. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

"Clinton said last week in Rome world powers must show the Syrian government that there are consequences for what she called a "brutal crackdown" on civilians."

direct    intense    inhumane   

gentle    kind   

brute    brutish    brutality    brutally   

savage    cruel    inhuman    brutish    unfeeling    merciless    gross    animal    rough    coarse   

butyl    futile    tootle   

cruel    vicious    ruthless    ferocious    selfish    barbarous    rude    bold