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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;
- Example: "a barbarous crime"
- Example: "brutal beatings"
- Example: "cruel tortures"
- Example: "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"
- Example: "a savage slap"
- Example: "vicious kicks"
[syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious]

2. harsh;
- Example: "the brutal summer sun"
- Example: "a brutal winter"
[syn: brutal, unrelenting]

3. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
- Example: "beastly desires"
- Example: "a bestial nature"
- Example: "brute force"
- Example: "a dull and brutish man"
- Example: "bestial treatment of prisoners"
[syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal]

4. disagreeably direct and precise;
- Example: "he spoke with brutal honesty"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brutal \Bru"tal\, a. [Cf. F. brutal. See Brute, a.]
   1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. "Above the
      rest of brutal kind." --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling;
      merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal
      intemperance." --Macaulay.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

brutal
    adj 1: (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" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell,
           roughshod, savage, vicious]
    2: harsh; "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter" [syn:
       brutal, unrelenting]
    3: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
       "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull
       and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn:
       beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal]
    4: disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal
       honesty"