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- pronunciation:
- bru
t
 l
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
exceptionally savage, merciless, or cruel.
The brutal jailer worked the prisoners until they dropped from exhaustion.- synonyms:
- atrocious, barbarous, ruthless, savage, vicious
- antonyms:
- gentle, humane
- similar words:
- abusive, barbaric, bestial, bloodthirsty, brute, brutish, callous, cruel, evil, ferocious, fiendish, grim, inhuman, merciless, monstrous, oppressive, outrageous, pitiless, remorseless, truculent, violent
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| definition 2: |
exceptionally severe.
The brutal blizzard caused numerous deaths.- synonyms:
- ferocious, furious, terrible, violent
- similar words:
- awful, bad, cruel, fierce, grim, harsh, inhuman, intense, severe
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| definition 3: |
unpleasantly plain and direct.
The brutal truth is that you just don't have the talent to succeed.He was stung by the brutal answer to his question.- synonyms:
- crude
- similar words:
- bald, bare, blunt, explicit, naked, plain, point-blank, raw, unequivocal
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| related words: |
bitter, fierce, gory, terrible, tough, vicious, wanton |
adverb + (adj.)brutal
equally, increasingly, incredibly, most, particularly, pretty
(adj.)brutal
+ noun
act,
aggression,
assassination,
assault,
attack,
battle,
beating,
blow,
boxing,
campaign,
candor,
childhood,
civilian,
clarity,
cleansing,
cold,
colonization,
competition,
conflict,
conquest,
cop,
counterinsurgency,
crackdown,
crime,
dictator,
dictatorship,
drought,
efficiency,
execution,
exploitation,
fashion,
fight,
fighting,
gang,
genocide,
hazing,
heat,
homicide,
honesty,
interrogation,
invader,
invasion,
killer,
killing,
massacre,
murder,
murderer,
occupation,
oppression,
persecution,
primary,
punishment,
rape,
reality,
rebel,
recession,
regime,
reign,
reminder,
repression,
reprisal,
revenge,
ritual,
robbery,
savage,
scene,
schedule,
siege,
slaughter,
slave,
slavery,
slaying,
stretch,
struggle,
subjugation,
suppression,
tactic,
terror,
toll,
torture,
treatment,
tyranny,
tyrant,
violence,
war,
warfare,
weather,
winter
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| derivation: |
brutally (adv.) |
The word brutal
contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
  More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, agricultural, ancestral, annual, arboreal, artificial, astral, bacterial, biblical, biographical, brutal, capital, central, ceremonial, chemical, classical, clinical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continental, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, fluvial, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, guttural, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, ineffectual, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, pastoral, personal, philosophical, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, political, potential, quizzical, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, sacrificial, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, territorial, theatrical, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, veridical, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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