Brutal - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈbruːtl|  American pronunciation of the word brutal
Brit.  |ˈbruːt(ə)l|  British pronunciation of the word brutal

adjective

- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering (syn: barbarous, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious)
brutal beatings
- punishingly harsh (syn: unrelenting)
the brutal summer sun
a brutal winter
- resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility (syn: beastly, bestial, brute, brutish)
- disagreeably direct and precise
he spoke with brutal honesty

Extra examples

Sailors sometimes faced brutal punishments like whipping.

The writer describes the dangers of drugs with brutal honesty.

The movie is a brutal depiction of the war.

The traffic was brutal on the way to work.

I had a brutal headache this morning.

It was brutal of him to do that.

He replied with brutal honesty.

He was brutally murdered.

If I'm brutally honest, I don't like her dress.

She was injured in a brutal assault.

...a frosty autumn that was a sign of the brutal winter that followed...

...such a brutal upbringing could only callous his soul and indurate his heart to the suffering of others...

...the Fugitive Slave Act had the effect of returning slaves who had made it to freedom in the North to a brutal life of servitude in the South...

Brady committed a series of brutal murders.

She showed her sense of degradation in the brutal grotesquerie.

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