brutal

adjectives

(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

"a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious

is derived from

harsh

"the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter"

brutal, unrelenting

resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"

beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish

is derived from

is derived from

disagreeably direct and precise

"he spoke with brutal honesty"

brutal

is similar to

straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action

"a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"