Brutal and Hellish

Brutal

Brutal adjective - Difficult to endure.

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

Hellish

Hellish adjective - Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell.

Brutal and hellish are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brutal" instead an adjective "Hellish".

Nearby Words: hell, hellishly

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Phantasmagoria 2 The game starts off as a typical day for him, but soon increasingly weird things occur, with Curtis receiving hellish visions, and then the mysterious and brutal murder of a coworker occurring.
  • Manga / Rurouni Kenshin Yahiko's training is less hellish, but still fairly brutal (thousands of repetitions of the moves necessary for the succession technique so that he could operate purely on muscle memory).
  • Series / The Man in the High Castle World Building: There are a lot of references made about the overall state of the hellish world that the Axis Powers created in their victory, for instance Nazi Germany taking over the European colonies in Africa and replacing them with even more brutal regimes resembling the Congo Free State.
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