adj.
- savagely violent.
- without any attempt to disguise unpleasantness:
brutal honesty.
- N. Amer. informal very bad.
Derivative
- brutality
/-ˈtalɪti/
n. - brutally adv.
Etymology
C15 (in the sense ‘relating to the lower animals’): from OFr., or from med. L. brutalis, from brutus (see brute).