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单词 brutal
释义 bru·tal
\ˈbrüd.əl, -ütəl\ adjective
(sometimes -er/-est)
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French, from Medieval Latin brutalis, from brutus brute, animal + Latin -alis -al — more at brute
1. archaic : of, belonging to, or typical of beasts or animals as distinguished from man : animal
 < thee, Serpent … to me so friendly grown above the rest of brutal kind — John Milton >
2. : befitting or resembling a brute: as
 a. : stemming from or based on crude animal instincts : grossly ruthless
  < a brutal attack >
 b. : devoid of mercy or compassion : cruel and cold-blooded
  < blunt and occasionally brutal, but … never niggling and peevish — Cleanth Brooks >
 c. : harsh and severe : unpleasant to a degree that is nearly unbearable
  < another summer of brutal heat >
  < two brutal winters in a row >
 d. : unpleasantly accurate and incisive : undeniable but harsh
  < the brutal truth >
  < the brutal facts must be faced and action taken >
Synonyms:
 brutish, bestial, feral, beastly, brute: brutal stresses sensuality, coarse cruelty, or crude grossness, always without the alleviation of normal human moderation, reticence, sympathy, mercy, or consideration of others
  < Constance Kent was rather a beauty — a nice girl with an engaging air; yet she cut her little brother's throat in a thoroughly brutal manner — W.H.Wright >
  < brutal Ode and St. Dunstan force their rude way into the quiet room, and hurl coarse insults at the sweet-faced queen — J.K.Jerome >
  brutish stresses either gross sensuality completely unchecked or utter animal stupidity unenlightened by even faint human intelligence
  < in the mines and factories an indiscriminate sexual intercourse of the most brutish kind was the only relief from the tedium and drudgery of the day — Lewis Mumford >
  < it requires wisdom to liberate ourselves from natural brutish stupidity and enslaving passions — M.R.Cohen >
  bestial usually indicates either a complete lack of human intelligence and refinement or an utter lustful depravity
  < they were much impressed with the size and bestial ferocity of the niggers whom they had now learned to call “Paythans” — Rudyard Kipling >
  < he is a thief, a murderer, a defiler, a bestial, lecherous dog — Rafael Sabatini >
  feral stresses wild fury and ferocity like a wild beast's
  < her wrath, savage and feral, utterly possessed her. She was like a wild animal, cornered and conscious of defeat — W.H.Wright >
  beastly may imply beastlike indelicacy, cruelty, or sensuality
  < some woman, coarse and low and vulgar, some beastly creature in whom all the horror of sex is blatant — W.S.Maugham >
  < systematic mutilation of the body rendered the crime particularly beastly — Earl of Birkenhead b. 1907 >
  Often it simply implies irritation or disgust on the speaker's part
  < she can't eat the soup — no more can I. It's beastly. — W.M.Thackeray >
  brute may connote cruelty or stupidity
  < the brute mentality of the clods who constitute the parish — A.J.Cronin >
  < murdered, along the coast of Lincolnshire, out of brute spite — Charles Kingsley >
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