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brutal
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin brutalis (“savage, stupid”), from Latin br?tus (“dull, stupid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?u?t?l/
- Rhymes: -u?t?l
Adjective
brutal (comparative more brutal, superlative most brutal)
- Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel
- Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
- Harsh; unrelenting
- Disagreeably precise or penetrating
- (music, figuratively) In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.
- Direct and without attempt to disguise unpleasantness.
Synonyms
- barbaric
- cold-blooded
- savage
- vicious
Antonyms
- gentle
- kind
Related terms
- brutality
- brutally
- brute
- brutish
Translations
Further reading
- brutal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- brutal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- brutal at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Brault
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin brutalis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /b?u?tal/
Adjective
brutal (masculine and feminine plural brutals)
- brutal
Derived terms
- brutalisme
- brutalitat
- brutalment
Related terms
- brut
Further reading
- “brutal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish
Etymology
From French brutal, from Latin br?tus (“dull, stupid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bruta?l/, [b??u?t?æ??l]
Adjective
brutal
- brutal
- savage
Inflection
Derived terms
- brutalitet
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin br?t?lis (“savage, stupid”), from br?tus (“dull, stupid”). See brut and -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?y.tal/
Adjective
brutal (feminine singular brutale, masculine plural brutaux, feminine plural brutales)
- brutal
Noun
brutal m (plural brutaux, feminine brutale)
- person who acts brutally
Derived terms
- brutalement
- brutaliser
- brutalité
Further reading
- “brutal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- brulât, brûlât
German
Etymology
From Latin brutalis, from brutus (“dull, stupid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?u?ta?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Adjective
brutal (comparative brutaler, superlative am brutalsten)
- brutal
Declension
Synonyms
- barbarisch
- kaltblütig
Antonyms
- freundlich
Related terms
- Brutalität
Further reading
- “brutal” in Duden online
Indonesian
Etymology
From English brutal, from Medieval Latin brutalis (“savage, stupid”), from Latin br?tus (“dull, stupid”). Doublet of bruto, guru.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?brutal]
- Hyphenation: bru?tal
Adjective
brutal (plural brutal-brutal)
- (colloquial) brutal
- violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel.
- Synonym: kejam
- harsh; unrelenting.
- Synonym: kasar
- violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel.
Further reading
- “brutal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin brutus, via French brutal.
Adjective
brutal (neuter singular brutalt, definite singular and plural brutale)
- brutal
Related terms
- brutalitet
References
- “brutal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin brutus, via French brutal.
Adjective
brutal (neuter singular brutalt, definite singular and plural brutale)
- brutal
Related terms
- brutalitet
References
- “brutal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan
Alternative forms
- brutau (Limousin)
Adjective
brutal m (feminine singular brutala, masculine plural brutals, feminine plural brutalas) (Languedoc)
- brutal
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 132.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin brutalis.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /b?u?ta?/
- Hyphenation: bru?tal
Adjective
brutal m or f (plural brutais, comparable)
- brutal, brutish
- (colloquial) huge
- (colloquial) fantastic, extraordinary
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin brutalis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bru?tal/
Adjective
brutal m or n (feminine singular brutal?, masculine plural brutali, feminine and neuter plural brutale)
- brutal
Declension
Related terms
- brut
- brutalitate
- brutaliza
- brutalizare
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin br?t?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?u?tal/, [b?u?t?al]
Adjective
brutal (plural brutales)
- brutal
Derived terms
- brutalidad
- brutalismo
- brutalizar
- brutalmente
Related terms
- bruto
Further reading
- “brutal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
From French brutal from Medieval Latin brutalis, from br?tus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
brutal (comparative brutalare, superlative brutalast)
- brutal
Declension
Related terms
- brutalisera
Anagrams
- bultar
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evil
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?-v?l, ?-v?l, IPA(key): /?i?v?l/, /?i?v?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?iv?l/
- Hyphenation: evil
- Rhymes: -i?v?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (compare Saterland Frisian eeuwel, Dutch euvel, Low German övel, German übel), from Proto-Indo-European *h?upélos (compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *u?elos), diminutive of *h?wep(h?)-, *h?wap- (“treat badly”) (compare Hittite ???????????????? (huwapp-i, “to mistreat, harass”), ???????????????????? (huwappa-, “evil, badness”)), or alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h?ewp- (“down, up, over”).
Adjective
evil (comparative eviller or eviler or more evil, superlative evillest or evilest or most evil)
- Intending to harm; malevolent.
- 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 47,[1]
- For a good while the Miss Brownings were kept in ignorance of the evil tongues that whispered hard words about Molly.
- 1916, Zane Grey, The Border Legion, New York: Harper & Bros., Chapter 10, p. 147,[2]
- He looked at her shapely person with something of the brazen and evil glance that had been so revolting to her in the eyes of those ruffians.
- 2006, Ng?g? wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Pantheon, Book Three, Section II, Chapter 3, p. 351,[3]
- “Before this, I never had any cause to suspect my wife of any conspiracy.”
- “You mean it never crossed your mind that she might have been told to whisper evil thoughts in your ear at night?”
- 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 47,[1]
- Morally corrupt.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 3,[4]
- Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,
- When death’s approach is seen so terrible.
- 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter 41,[5]
- I had much trouble at first in breaking him of those evil habits his father had taught him to acquire […]
- 1967, Chaim Potok, The Chosen, New York: Fawcett Columbine, 2003, Chapter 1, p. 14,[6]
- To the rabbis who taught in the Jewish parochial schools, baseball was an evil waste of time […]
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 3,[4]
- Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
- 1660, John Harding (translator), Paracelsus his Archidoxis, London: W.S., Book 7, “Of an Odoriferous Specifick,” p. 100,[7]
- An Odoriferous Specifick […] is a Matter that takes away Diseases from the Sick, no otherwise then as Civet drives away the stinck of Ordure by its Odour; for you are to observe, That the Specifick doth permix it self with this evil Odour of the Dung; and the stink of the Dung cannot hurt, no[r] abide there […]
- 1897, H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, Chapter 18,[8]
- He awoke in an evil temper […]
- 1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part V, “Mazar-i-Sherif,” p. 282,[9]
- It was an evil day, sticky and leaden: Oxiana looked as colourless and suburban as India.
- 1958, Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana, Penguin, 1979, Part Four, Chapter 1, p. 125,[10]
- He herded them into a small and evil toilet and then through a window.
- 1993, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, Toronto: Random House of Canada, Chapter One, p. 39,[11]
- Everyone in the tiny, crowded, hot, and evil-smelling kitchen […] has been invited to participate in a moment of history.
- 1660, John Harding (translator), Paracelsus his Archidoxis, London: W.S., Book 7, “Of an Odoriferous Specifick,” p. 100,[7]
- Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act V, Scene 6,[12]
- The owl shrieked at thy birth,—an evil sign;
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Deuteronomy 22.19,[13]
- […] he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel:
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes in Paradise Regain’d, to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, p. 89, lines 438-439,[14]
- A little stay will bring some notice hither,
- For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
- 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, 1944, Chapter 15, p. 122,[15]
- “ […] with bandits and robbers roving over the land in these evil times of famine and war, how can it be said that this one or that stole anything? Hunger makes thief of any man.”
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act V, Scene 6,[12]
- (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
- an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 7.18,[16]
- A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
- (computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice
- Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
Synonyms
- nefarious
- malicious
- malevolent
- wicked
- See also Thesaurus:evil
Antonyms
- good
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
evil (countable and uncountable, plural evils)
- Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
- The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.
- Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
- (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
- He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.
Antonyms
- good
Derived terms
Translations
References
Etymology 2
From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel (“evilly”), from Old English yfele, yfle (“evilly”), a derivative of the noun yfel (“evil”). Often reinterpreted as the noun in the later language (as in "to speak evil").
Adverb
evil (comparative more evil, superlative most evil)
- (obsolete) wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
- (obsolete) injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
- (obsolete) badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
- It went evil with him.
Usage notes
This adverb was usually used in conjunction with speak.
References
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Evil, adv.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 350, column 2.
Anagrams
- Levi, Viel, live, veil, vile, vlei
Middle English
Etymology 1
Adjective
evil
- Alternative form of yvel (“evil”)
Etymology 2
Adverb
evil
- Alternative form of yvel (“evilly”)
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