- brutal
- adj1. pitiless, merciless, heartless, unkind, inhumane; unfeeling, uncompassionate, unsympathetic; cruel, hard-hearted, stony-hearted, marble-hearted, cold-blooded; cold, callous, insensitive, hardened, obdurate.2. inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, savage, hellish, Tartarian, Hunnish, Vandalic; brutish, murderous, slaughterous, bloodthirsty; sadistic, bestial, beastly, animalistic, cannibalistic, fiendish, ghoulish, ogreish, Obs. belluine; diabolical, satanic, demonic, demoniac, devilish; terrible, harsh, grim, hard, severe; ferocious, ruthless, vicious, fell, truculent; wolfish, lupine, fierce, feral, ferine; tyrannical, Draconian, inquisitorial, oppressive; unrelenting, relentless, remorseless, implacable, inexorable, grinding.3. gross, rude, coarse, vulgar, rough; gruff, bearish, boorish, crass, rustic, ill-bred, churlish, clodhopping, Archaic. carlish; loutish, doltish, cloddish, oafish; uncivil, unrefined, uncouth, inurbane, unpolished; uncultivated, unmannered, ungentlemanly, ungentle, uncourtly, inelegant, indelicate.4. irrational, unthinking, unintelligent, unreasoning, uncomprehending; mindless, insensible, senseless, Rare. insulse, stupid.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.