brutal
- savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- crude; coarse: brutal language.
- harsh; ferocious: brutal criticism; brutal weather.
- taxing, demanding, or exhausting: They're having a brutal time making ends meet.
- irrational; unreasoning.
- of or relating to lower animals.
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viciously, fiercely, savagely, mercilessly, relentlessly, ferociously, ruthlessly, meanly, atrociously, barbarically, barbarously, callously, diabolically, heartlessly, inexorably, inhumanely, inhumanly, pitilessly, unkindlyExamples from the Web for brutally
Contemporary Examples of brutally
There is a brutally honest section of the book about how you fell out of love with your wife, and essentially chose soccer.
The course Jackson taught at VMI, “Natural and Experimental Philosophy,” was brutally difficult.
It was a brutally hot day, 103 degrees, and the city was on the verge of a racial explosion.
Honoring The Late John Doar, A Nearly Forgotten Hero Of The Civil Rights EraGary May
November 15, 2014
Instead they allegedly went crazy in the streets of Cambridge, assaulting strangers and brutally raping one young man.
Brutally, Ms. Grande, to be a true diva you need to have lived a bit.
Historical Examples of brutally
"You will find that you are up against a hell of a frost," she would declare, brutally.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
He paused for an instant, then spoke in a voice that was brutally menacing.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
The guard tugged at it brutally to bring it within range of his vision.
Slaves of MercuryNat Schachner
But to be good and brutally frank about it, what she suffers just now doesn't count with me.
The HarborErnest Poole
"We want to go upstairs into your rooms," Macquart said to her brutally.
The Fortune of the RougonsEmile Zola
brutal
- cruel; vicious; savage
- extremely honest or coarse in speech or manner
- harsh; severe; extremebrutal cold