Adjective: brutal
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more brutal |
| Superlative | most brutal |
Sample Sentences
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The game was brutal, but after a bloodbath he finally won.
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What began as a zeitgeisty outlaw romp in the Uncool Britannia of the 1990s is now reborn as a scabrous and brutal black comedy about middle-aged male disappointment and fear of death. [2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian:]
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brutal honesty
Adjectives inflected like brutal
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin brutalis (“savage, stupid”), from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid”). See: Latin Adjectives '
brūtus'.
Verbs referencing "brutal"
Finnish Adjectives
brutaali.