Ancient and Brutal

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Ancient adjective - Dating or surviving from the distant past.

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Brutal and ancient are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Brutal" instead an adjective "Ancient".

Nearby Word: anciently

Brutal adjective - Difficult to endure.

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Ancient and brutal are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancient" instead an adjective "Brutal".

Nearby Words: brutish, brute, brutalize, brutality, brutally

The Assyrians (one of the most brutal and most effective armies of the ancient Middle East) are mentioned as doing this among other practices that would be considered war crimes today.

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The DC Universe character Doomsday was created deliberately through a brutal process of Lamarckian evolution, which entailed being stranded on the Death World of ancient Krypton.

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Particularly egregious was how the film ignores the fact that Sparta, far from being an ancient bastion of democracy, had the most brutal caste system in Greece with the helots.

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