brutal
I
adjective
atrocious, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, bloody, brute-like, brutish, churlish, coarse, cruel, despotic, domineering, excessive, extreme, fell, ferocious, ferus, fierce, flint-hearted, grim, gross, gruff, hardhearted, harsh, immanis, inexorable, inhuman, inhumanus, mean, merciless, oppressive, over-harsh, overbearing, persecuting, pitiless, primitive, remorseless, rough, rugged, ruthless, sadistic, savage, severe, stonyhearted, truculent, tyrannical, tyrannous, uncivilized, unfeeling, ungentle, unmerciful, unrelenting, untamed, vicious, violent
II
index
bitter (penetrating), callous, cold-blooded, cruel, diabolic, disorderly, harsh, hot-blooded, inexcusable, malevolent, malicious, malignant, noxious, pernicious, ruthless, scathing, severe, tyrannous, vicious
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006