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Brutal vs Lethal - What's the difference?

brutal | lethal |

As adjectives the difference between brutal and lethal

is that brutal is (senseid)savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel while lethal is deadly; mortal; fatal.

As a noun lethal is

(chemistry) one of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.

brutal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (senseid)Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel
  • Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
  • Harsh; unrelenting
  • Disagreeably precise or penetrating
  • (music, figuratively) In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.

    • Synonyms

    * barbaric * cold-blooded * savage * vicious

    Antonyms

    * gentle * kind

    Related terms

    * brutality * brutally * brute * brutish

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    lethal

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deadly; mortal; fatal.
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    • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
    Related terms
    * lethality * semilethal

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of “lauric acid ethereal salt”, so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.

    Noun

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  • (chemistry) One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.

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