Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.

Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.

(of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"

(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"

used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters"