{
    "term": "brutal",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "violent and cruel",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a brutal attack/murder/rape/killing"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a brutal and repressive regime"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "direct and clear about something unpleasant; not thinking of people’s feelings",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "With brutal honesty she told him she did not love him."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbruːtl/",
                "audio": "br/brutal/brutal__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbruːtl/",
                "audio": "br/brutal/brutal__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to the lower animals’): from Old French, or from medieval Latin brutalis, from brutus ‘dull, stupid’."
}