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brutal   (TTS Sound)

The adj brutal has 4 senses

• barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious -- ((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")


• brutal, unrelenting -- (harsh; "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter")


• beastly, bestial, brute, brutish, brutal -- (resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners")


• brutal -- (disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal honesty")