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Synonyms for BRUTAL
ˈbrut lbru·tal

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Wiktionary4.0 / 1 vote

  1. brutaladjective

    Synonyms:
    cold-blooded, barbaric, savage, vicious

    Antonyms:
    gentle, kind

  2. brutaladjective

    Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel

    Synonyms:
    vicious, barbaric, cold-blooded, savage

    Antonyms:
    gentle, kind

  3. brutaladjective

    Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.

    Synonyms:
    barbaric, savage, cold-blooded, vicious

    Antonyms:
    kind, gentle

  4. brutaladjective

    Harsh; unrelenting

    Synonyms:
    barbaric, cold-blooded, savage, vicious

    Antonyms:
    gentle, kind

  5. brutaladjective

    Disagreeably precise or penetrating

    Synonyms:
    vicious, savage, cold-blooded, barbaric

    Antonyms:
    gentle, kind

  6. brutaladjective

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

    Synonyms:
    barbaric, cold-blooded, savage, vicious

    Antonyms:
    kind, gentle

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 2 votes

  1. brutal

    Whatever is not civilized is barbarian; barbaric indicates rude magnificence, uncultured richness; as, barbaric splendor, a barbaric melody. Barbarous refers to the worst side of barbarian life, and to revolting acts, especially of cruelty, such as a civilized man would not be expected to do; as, a barbarous deed. We may, however, say barbarous nations, barbarous tribes, without implying anything more than want of civilization and culture. Savage is more distinctly bloodthirsty than barbarous. In this sense we speak of a savage beast and of barbarous usage.

    Synonyms:
    atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, cruel, inhuman, merciless, rude, savage, uncivilized, uncouth, untamed

    Antonyms:
    civilized, courtly, cultured, delicate, elegant, graceful, humane, nice, polite, refined, tender, urbane

Princeton's WordNet4.7 / 3 votes

  1. barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, viciousadjective

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

    "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

    Synonyms:
    wild, uncivilized, fierce, savage, deplorable, reprehensible, fell, beastly, unrelenting, venomous, criminal, brute(a), condemnable, roughshod, barbaric, evil, feral, cruel, poisonous, barbarous, vicious, furious, ferocious, barbarian, heavy-handed, brutish, bestial, brutal, ferine, uncivilised

    Antonyms:
    mild, humane, indirect

  2. brutal, unrelentingadjective

    harsh

    "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter"

    Synonyms:
    savage, relentless, fell, grim, beastly, unrelenting, stern, brute(a), roughshod, unappeasable, cruel, barbarous, vicious, brutish, unforgiving, inexorable, bestial, brutal, persistent

    Antonyms:
    humane, mild, indirect

  3. beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutaladjective

    resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

    "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"

    Antonyms:
    mild, indirect, humane

  4. brutaladjective

    disagreeably direct and precise

    "he spoke with brutal honesty"

    Synonyms:
    brutish, unrelenting, bestial, savage, barbarous, fell, roughshod, cruel, vicious, brute(a), beastly

    Antonyms:
    mild, indirect, humane

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. brutaladjective

    Synonyms:
    savage, ferocious, cruel, inhuman, unfeeling, barbarous, barbarian, fell, barbaric, ruthless, truculent, bloody, brutish, brute

  2. brutaladjective

    Synonyms:
    churlish, gruff, bearish, harsh, uncivil, rude, rough, impolite, unmannerly, BRUSQUE, ungentlemanly

  3. brutaladjective

    Synonyms:
    gross, coarse, sensual, carnal, brutish, beastly, bestial

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. brutaladjective

    Synonyms:
    inhuman, cruel, fell, ruthless, truculent, unfeeling, beastly, bestial, brutish

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How to use BRUTAL in a sentence?

  1. Robert Merritt:

    You need to face the consequences of the criminal behavior that you were sentenced for on the 18th of January and now you certainly need to be held accountable for the brutal murder of our mother.

  2. Henry Louis Mencken:

    School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

  3. Bob Menendez:

    President Obama's actions have vindicated the brutal behavior of the Cuban government, trading Mr. Gross for three convicted criminals sets an extremely dangerous precedent. It invites dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans serving overseas as bargaining chips.

  4. Kenneth Nail:

    Nikki Haley announced. Since then, at least 60 public Confederate symbols have been removed since the 2015 church shooting, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most recently, the city of St. Louis, Mo., removed a Confedearte monument -- a 32-foot-tall granite column with a bronze sculpture -- from a park. Complicating the debate for those opposed to these moves is the involvement of hate groups like the KKK. The group is planning a rally for July 8 following a decision by the city council in Charlottesville, Va., to remove a statue of Gen. Lee Park and rename Lee Park. Meanwhile, in April, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered the removal of multiple Confederate statues. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu received brutal backlash and was forced to have heavy police presence in place when the nighttime removals began. Despite threats that people would boycott New Orleans, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu did not back down. These statues are not just stone and metal, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a highly lauded speech after the last Confederate statue had been taken down. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy ; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and the terror that it actually stood for. But to others, like Kenneth Nail Nail, it’s not about oppression. To us, it’s not a hate thing. It’s a heritage thing and what we like to do is celebrate everyone's struggles : the blacks, the whites, the north and south.

  5. Duchess of Cornwall:

    Their stories, of the humanity behind the headlines, are unbearably moving -- but they must, and they do, have the power to stir us to action, as do the heart-breaking stories from Ukraine of brutal attacks on democracy and freedom.


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