Brutal
Primitive
Primitive adjective - Belonging to or characteristic of an early level of skill or development.
Brutal and primitive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brutal" instead an adjective "Primitive".
Nearby Word: primitively
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- The crowd surges could be scary, and the crowd control measures were often primitive and sometimes brutal.
Source: Broken Base / Music -
The entire piece sounds brutal, primitive, loud and has a scary feeling to it.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Music -
Actual dragons replace the dinosaurs, brutal reptilian humanoids lord it over tribes of primitive humans and goblins, and the land itself is scarred by volcanic rifts where it isn't covered in chokingly dense jungle or festering tar pits.
Source: One Million B.C.
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