Brutality

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The state or quality of being ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting.
  • n. A ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting act.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the state of being brutal
  • n. a cruel or savage act
  • n. the use of excessive physical force e.g. police brutality
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
  • n. An inhuman act.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; gross cruelty; insensibility to pity or shame.
  • n. A savage, shameless, or inhuman act.
  • n. Synonyms Barbarity, ferocity, truculence.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the trait of extreme cruelty
  • n. a brutal barbarous savage act
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cruelty    harshness    cruelness    atrocity    inhumanity   
    Synonym
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    Rhyme
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cruelty    ferocity    greed    barbarity    oppression    arrogance    stupidity    violence    meanness    rudeness