brutal

• "a barbarous crime"
• "brutal beatings"
• "cruel tortures"
• "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"
• "a savage slap"
• "vicious kicks"

Synonyms

• barbarous(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; primitive in customs and culture
• cruel(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
• fell(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; pass away rapidly; sew a seam by folding the edges ; the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal) ; seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges ; the act of felling something (as a tree)
• roughshod(of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping ; (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; unjustly domineering
• savagea member of an uncivilized people ; a cruelly rapacious person ; attack brutally and fiercely ; criticize harshly or violently; (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; wild and menacing; without civilizing influences; marked by extreme and violent energy
• vicious(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; having the nature of vice ; bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; marked by deep ill will

• "the brutal summer sun"
• "a brutal winter"

Synonyms

• unrelentingnot to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; punishingly harsh; never-ceasing

• "showing lack of human sensibility"
• "beastly desires"
• "a bestial nature"
• "brute force"
• "a dull and brutish man"
• "bestial treatment of prisoners"

Synonyms

• beastlyin a beastly manner; (informal) very unpleasant; resembling a beast
• bestialresembling a beast
• brute(a)
• brutishresembling a beast

• "he spoke with brutal honesty"