英语词汇“brutal”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	brutal
释义	bru·tal \ˈbrüd.^əl, -üt^əl\ 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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