brutal
Meaning of brutal
adjective
- savagely violent.
a brutal murder
late 15th century (in the sense ‘relating to the lower animals’): from Old French, or from medieval Latin brutalis, from brutus ‘dull, stupid’ (see brute).
Information about brutal
- It is an adjective.
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Catalan
GalicianHyphenation of brutal
bru-tal
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- brutal is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
brutal synonyms
Meaning cruel:
Meaning barbarous:
barbarous, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
Meaning having or showing a desire to kill and maim:
Meaning savagely fierce, cruel, or violent:
Meaning savagely cruel:
Meaning evil or morally wrong:
Meaning capable of or intending to murder; dangerously violent:
Meaning cruel or severe:
Meaning having or showing no pity or compassion for others:
Meaning showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others:
Meaning displaying a complete lack of feeling or consideration:
Meaning showing no mercy:
Meaning showing no pity; cruel:
Meaning without regret or guilt:
Meaning deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others:
Meaning unsympathetic, harsh, or callous:
Meaning lacking human qualities of compassion and mercy; cruel and barbaric:
Meaning (of a person or wrongful act, especially a crime) utterly odious or wicked:
Meaning having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster:
Meaning causing moral revulsion:
Meaning horrifyingly wicked:
Meaning extremely unpleasant:
Meaning relating to or characteristic of hell or the underworld:
Meaning (of a place or people) not socially, culturally, or morally advanced:
Meaning savagely cruel and depraved:
Meaning resembling or characteristic of a brute:
Meaning very unpleasant:
Meaning relating to or characteristic of animals:
brutal antonyms
Meaning having or showing a mild, kind, or tender temperament or character:
Meaning having or showing compassion or benevolence:
Translation of brutal
Words that rhyme with brutal
Butal, Nembutal, attributal, nembutal, phenarbutal, reunabutal, talbutal, thiobutal, thionembutal, mesoprescutal, mesoscutal, metaprescutal, metascutal, prescutal, scutal, nonrefutal, refutal, diminutal, hyperbrutal, nonbrutal, overbrutal
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