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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