Usually means: Harsh, cruel, and mercilessly severe.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word brutal:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. brutal: Merriam-Webster
  2. brutal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brutal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brutal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brutal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brutal, Brutal, brutal: Wordnik
  7. brutal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brutal: Wiktionary
  9. brutal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brutal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brutal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brutal, brutal: Dictionary.com
  13. brutal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Brutal (Black Uhuru album), Brutal (Dr. Sin album), Brutal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Brutal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. brutal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. brutal: Rhymezone
  18. brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal(e) (-aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. brutal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. brutal: FreeDictionary.org
  21. brutal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. brutal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. brutal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brutal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brutal: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. brutal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Brutal: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. brutal, brutal: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See brutally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an unintelligent manner.
adjective:  Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
adjective:  Harsh; unrelenting.
adjective:  Disagreeably precise or penetrating.
adjective:  (music, figuratively) In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.
adjective:  Direct and without attempt to disguise unpleasantness.

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