how to pronounce brutal

/ˈbɹutəl/

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brutal is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of brutal in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… artist presented a brutal vision of the …”

meaning of brutal

Brutal means cruel, savage, and violent.

brutal frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word brutal occurs in english on average 14.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics brutal can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that brutal can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;