- violent and cruel
- a brutal attack/murder/rape/killing
- a brutal and repressive regime
- direct and clear about something unpleasant; not thinking of people’s feelings
- With brutal honesty she told him she did not love him.
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to the lower animals’): from Old French, or from medieval Latin brutalis, from brutus ‘dull, stupid’.
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