- 1violent and cruel a brutal attack/murder/rape/killing a brutal and repressive regime
- 2direct and clear about something unpleasant; not thinking of people's feelings With brutal honesty, she told him she did not love him.
NAmE//bruˈtælət̮i//
noun [uncountable, countable] (pl. brutalities) police brutality the brutalities of war NAmE//ˈbrut̮l̩i//
adverb He was brutally assaulted. Let me be brutally frank about this.See brutal in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: brutal