brutal

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: bru=tal
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

brutal, a. [Cf. F. brutal. See Brute, a.].

•  Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.  Macaulay.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

brutal, adj.
1 savagely or coarsely cruel.
2 harsh, merciless.

Derivative

brutality n. (pl. -ies). brutally adv.

Etymology

F brutal or med.L brutalis f. brutus BRUTE

THESAURUS

brutal

Adamic, Circean, Draconian, Gothic, Herculean, Neanderthal, Tartarean, abominable, abstruse, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, anthropophagous, arduous, arrant, atrocious, awful, baneful, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, base, beastlike, beastly, beneath contempt, bestial, bitter, blameworthy, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bodily, boorish, brutalized, brute, brutelike, brutish, cannibalistic, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, cold-blooded, complex, contemptible, crass, critical, crude, cruel, cruel-hearted, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, delicate, demanding, demoniac, demoniacal, deplorable, despicable, destructive, detestable, devilish, diabolic, difficile, difficult, dire, disgusting, dreadful, dumb, earthy, egregious, enormous, exacting, fallen, fatal, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fetid, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, filthy, flagrant, fleshly, formidable, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harsh, hateful, heartless, heinous, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inclement, infamous, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, insensitive, instinctive, instinctual, intemperate, internecine, intricate, jawbreaking, kill-crazy, killing, knotted, knotty, laborious, lamentable, lapsed, lethal, loathsome, lousy, malign, malignant, material, materialistic, mean, merciless, mindless, monstrous, mortal, murderous, nasty, nefarious, no picnic, noisome, noncivilized, nonrational, nonspiritual, not easy, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, operose, orgiastic, outlandish, outrageous, pernicious, physical, pitiable, pitiful, pitiless, postlapsarian, primitive, rank, regrettable, remorseless, reprehensible, repulsive, rigorous, rotten, rough, rough-and-ready, rude, rugged, rustic, ruthless, sad, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, set with thorns, severe, shabby, shameful, sharkish, shocking, shoddy, slavering, sordid, spiny, squalid, steep, strenuous, subhuman, swinish, tameless, terrible, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, too bad, tough, tricky, troglodytic, truculent, unchristian, uncivil, uncivilized, unclean, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unfeeling, ungentle, unhuman, unkempt, unkind, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unspiritual, unsympathetic, untamed, uphill, vicious, vile, villainous, virulent, wicked, wild, woeful, wolfish, worst, worthless, wretched, zoic, zooidal, zoologic

ROGET THESAURUS

brutal

Discourtesy

N discourtesy, ill breeding, ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners, insuavity, uncourteousness rusticity, inurbanity, illiberality, incivility displacency, disrespect, procacity, impudence: barbarism, barbarity, misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret_e, brusquerie, vulgarity, churlishness, spinosity, perversity, moroseness, sternness, austerity, moodishness, captiousness, cynicism, tartness, acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity, scowl, black looks, frown, short answer, rebuff, hard words, contumely, unparliamentary language, personality, bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast, unlicked cub, frump, crosspatch, saucebox, crooked stick, grizzly, discourteous, uncourteous, uncourtly, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned, unbred, unmannerly, unmannered, impolite, unpolite, unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel, ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly, unladylike, blackguard, vulgar, dedecorous, foul- mouthed foul-spoken, abusive, uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious, cool, pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious, repulsive, uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant, inaffable, ungentle, ungainly, rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff, churlish, boorish, bearish, brutal, brusque, stern, harsh, austere, cavalier, taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious, snarling, surly, surly as a bear, perverse, grim, sullen, peevish, untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic, artless, discourteously, with discourtesy, with a bad grace.

Malevolence

N malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood, enmity, hate, malignity, malice, malice prepense, maliciousness, spite, despite, resentment, uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy, cruelty, cruelness, brutality, savagery, ferity, ferocity, barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism, evil eye, cloven foot, torture, vivisection, ill turn, bad turn, affront, outrage, atrocity, ill usage, intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, unkindest cut of all, malevolent, unbenevolent, unbenign, ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived, evil-minded, evil- disposed, black-browed, malicious, malign, malignant, rancorous, despiteful, spiteful, mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent, unamiable, uncharitable, maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling, harsh, disobliging, unkind, unfriendly, ungracious, inofficious, invidious, uncandid, churlish, surly, sullen, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural, ruthless, relentless, cruel, brutal, brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger, ferine, ferocious, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary, bloodthirsty, atrocious, bloodyminded, fiendish, fiendlike, demoniacal, diabolic, diabolical, devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic, Tartaran, malevolently, with bad intent, cruel as death, hard unkindness' alter'd eye, homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind, sharp-tooth'd unkindness.