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Definition of brutal
brutal
adjective
- extremely horrendous, embarrassing or harsh. (Not slang, coming to English from Medieval Latin.)
It was brutal when Stanford got knocked out of the Final Four.
Dude, that was a brutal way to break up with your girlfriend!
- See more words with the same meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing.
Last edited on Jan 23 2012. Submitted by Alli Henry from Palo Alto, CA, USA on Apr 18 1998.
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| Definitions include: not cool. | |
| Definitions include: displeasing; "uncool". | |
| Definitions include: good; excellent; "cool". | |
| Definitions include: a disliked person. | |
| Definitions include: very bad. | |
| Definitions include: of a video game, excessively difficult because positive things happen with very low frequency, and/or negative things happen with very high frequency. | |
| Definitions include: to jokingly deceive. | |
| Definitions include: extremely ugly. | |
| Definitions include: anything displeasing. | |
| Definitions include: bad, unfortunate, inconvenient, etc. | |
| Definitions include: sexual contact. | |
| Definitions include: inadequate, displeasing, or of poor quality. | |
| Definitions include: lacking excitement or people; "boring". | |
| Definitions include: sadistic; "messed up". | |
| Definitions include: of poor taste or style. | |
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