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Meaning of brutal

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  brutal
      adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict
             pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal
             beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod
             treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious
             kicks" [syn: {barbarous}, {brutal}, {cruel}, {fell},
             {roughshod}, {savage}, {vicious}]
      2: harsh; "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter" [syn:
         {brutal}, {unrelenting}]
      3: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
         "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull
         and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn:
         {beastly}, {bestial}, {brute(a)}, {brutish}, {brutal}]
      4: disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal
         honesty"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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