Brutal: alternatives and connections

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

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Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

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Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.

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Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.

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Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.

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Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.

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See Crewel.

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of Fall

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Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.

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Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

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Not relenting; unyielding; rigid; hard; stern; cruel.

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Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.

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