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brutal
Synonyms and Antonyms of brutal
- brutal hard labor in the hot sun
- a brutal military ruler
hard-hearted, ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted, unfeeling
bloodthirsty, cutthroat, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine
catty, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, vindictive
draconian, draconic, hardhanded, harsh, heavy-handed, oppressive
red in tooth and claw
- a coarse, brutal man who has no sense of what it means to be refined or sensitive or cultured
Synonym Discussion of brutal
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- a senseless and brutal war
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- brutish stupidity
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- bestial depravity
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- the struggle to survive unleashed their feral impulses
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