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Textual thesaurus for "brutal"

(adj) barbarous, cruel, vicious, savage, roughshod, fell

(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


(adj) beastly, bestial, brute, brutish

resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

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


(adj) unrelenting

harsh

the brutal summer sun; a brutal winter