Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The state of being brutal.

    Brutalität

    жесто́костьžestókostʹ, зве́рствоzvérstvo

    брутальністьbrutalʹnistʹ

    a brutal barbarous savage act

  2. (countable, uncountable)A cruel or savage act.

    бузувірствоbuzuvirstvo

  3. (countable, uncountable)The use of excessive physical force, often in the form of violence.

    police brutality

    school brutality

    Brutalität

    брутальністьbrutalʹnistʹ, надмірністьnadmirnistʹ

Examples

15 sentences
  1. Police brutality has been a problem for a long time.

    dePolizeibrutalität ist schon seit Langem ein Problem. — a_coder

  2. ISIS's brutality deserves our strongest possible condemnation.

  3. There are too many victims of police brutality.

  4. Mennad has never seen any atrocities or brutality.

  5. Their brutality is no match for our creativity.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
state of being brutal:
cruel act:
use of excessive physical force:
Русский
By meaning 1
state of being brutal:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
state of being brutal:

Forms

plural: brutalities
Singularbrutality
Pluralbrutalities

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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