Antonyms for brutal
ˈbrut lbru·tal

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1. brutaladjective

   Antonyms:
   gentle, kind

   Synonyms:
   cold-blooded, barbaric, savage, vicious

2. brutaladjective

   Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel

   Antonyms:
   gentle, kind

   Synonyms:
   vicious, barbaric, cold-blooded, savage

3. brutaladjective

   Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.

   Antonyms:
   kind, gentle

   Synonyms:
   barbaric, savage, cold-blooded, vicious

4. brutaladjective

   Harsh; unrelenting

   Antonyms:
   gentle, kind

   Synonyms:
   barbaric, cold-blooded, savage, vicious

5. brutaladjective

   Disagreeably precise or penetrating

   Antonyms:
   gentle, kind

   Synonyms:
   vicious, savage, cold-blooded, barbaric

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

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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.

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

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

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1. brutal

   Antonyms:
   humane, civilized, generous, intelligent, polished, chivalrous, conscientious, self-controlled

   Synonyms:
   savage, inhuman, rude, unfeeling, merciless, ruthless, brutish, barbarous, sensual, beastly, ignorant, stolid, dense, cruel, violent, vindictive, bloodthirsty, intemperate

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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"

   Antonyms:
   mild, humane, indirect

   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, ferine, uncivilised

2. brutal, unrelentingadjective

   harsh

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

   Antonyms:
   humane, mild, indirect

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

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"

   Antonyms:
   mild, indirect, humane

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

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1. brutaladjective

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

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1. gentler

   Submitted by anonymous on January 21, 2020  

How to use brutal in a sentence?

1. Vanna Bonta:

   If warring is human, then why not declare a new kind of war: A waged War of education, love and friendship to win universal human well-being? I propose a brutal conflict against poverty, disease, ignorance, limitations. Imagine the troops, the regimens, the commanders, the soldiers, the discoveries, the heroes, the life! humanity and our planet, victors.

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. Skye Wheeler:

   It's the brutal recruitment that is the most heart wrenching, forces come through their village and grab them and force them into fighting. It's an absolute negation of their basic rights as children, but also as people, not to be treated just as cannon fodder.

4. Andy Hall:

   Last month was brutal for most commodities and anyone investing in Middle East producers.

5. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers

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