Words that rhyme with brutal

  • futile
    adj 1: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" [syn: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing] 2: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain]
  • boodle
    n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] 2: a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card [syn: Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops]
  • bugle
    n 1: a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares 2: any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover [syn: bugle, bugleweed] 3: a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration v 1: play on a bugle
  • butyl
    n 1: a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9)
  • caboodle
    n 1: any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle" [syn: bunch, lot, caboodle]
  • doodle
    n 1: an aimless drawing [syn: scribble, scrabble, doodle] v 1: make a doodle; draw aimlessly
  • ductile
    adj 1: easily influenced [syn: ductile, malleable] 2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
  • fertile
    adj 1: capable of reproducing [ant: infertile, sterile, unfertile] 2: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific] 3: bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" [syn: prolific, fertile] 4: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat, fertile, productive, rich]
  • feudal
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism [syn: feudal, feudalistic]
  • footle
    v 1: be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around] 2: act foolishly, as by talking nonsense
  • frugal
    adj 1: avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally" [syn: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting]
  • noodle
    n 1: a ribbonlike strip of pasta 2: informal terms for a human head [syn: attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome]
  • poodle
    n 1: an intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped; an old breed sometimes trained as sporting dogs or as performing dogs [syn: poodle, poodle dog]
  • projectile
    adj 1: impelling or impelled forward; "a projectile force"; "a projectile missile" n 1: a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled [syn: projectile, missile] 2: any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine [syn: rocket, projectile]
  • protractile
    adj 1: able to be extended; "protractile muscle" [syn: protractile, protractible]
  • quartile
    n 1: (statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores
  • reptile
    n 1: any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms [syn: reptile, reptilian]
  • retractile
    adj 1: capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back; "cats have retractile claws" [ant: nonretractable, nonretractile]
  • rouble
    n 1: the basic unit of money in Russia [syn: ruble, rouble]
  • scruple
    n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains 2: uneasiness about the fitness of an action [syn: scruple, qualm, misgiving] 3: an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action v 1: hesitate on moral grounds; "The man scrupled to perjure himself" 2: raise scruples; "He lied and did not even scruple about it" 3: have doubts about
  • strudel
    n 1: thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked
  • tactile
    adj 1: of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch; "haptic data"; "a tactile reflex" [syn: haptic, tactile, tactual] 2: producing a sensation of touch; "tactile qualities"; "the tactual luxury of stroking silky human hair" [syn: tactile, tactual]
  • textile
    adj 1: of or relating to fabrics or fabric making; "textile research" n 1: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress" [syn: fabric, cloth, material, textile]
  • turnstile
    n 1: a gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering
  • utile
    adj 1: being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society" [syn: useful, utile] [ant: useless]
  • versatile
    adj 1: having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition" [syn: versatile, various] 2: changeable or inconstant; "versatile moods" 3: competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another; "a versatile writer" 4: able to move freely in all directions; "an owl's versatile toe can move backward and forward"; "an insect's versatile antennae can move up and down or laterally"; "a versatile anther of a flower moves freely in the wind"
  • volatile
    adj 1: evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures; "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents" [ant: nonvolatile, nonvolatilisable, nonvolatilizable] 2: liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation" [syn: explosive, volatile] 3: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" [syn: fickle, volatile] 4: tending to vary often or widely; "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions" n 1: a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles"
  • tubal
    adj 1: of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the Fallopian tube or Eustachian tube; "tubal ligation"; "tubal pregnancy"
  • tootle
    n 1: the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument; "he enjoyed hearing the tootles of their horns as the musicians warmed up" v 1: play (a musical instrument) casually; "the saxophone player was tootling a sad melody"
  • google
    n 1: a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search v 1: search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine; "He googled the woman he had met at the party"; "My children are googling all day"
  • pantile
    n 1: a roofing tile with a S-shape; laid so that curves overlap
  • peristyle
    n 1: a colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a court
  • prostyle
    adj 1: marked by columniation having free columns in a portico only across the opening to the structure [syn: prostyle, pseudoprostyle]
  • refutal
    n 1: the act of determining that something is false [syn: falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation, refutal]
  • rootle
    v 1: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn: rout, root, rootle]
  • rutile
    n 1: a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic and plutonic rocks and is a major source of titanium
  • quintile
  • restyle
  • goutal
  • tootal
  • decastyle
  • epistyle
  • hexastyle
  • octastyle
  • tetrastyle
  • vibratile
  • homestyle
  • bootle

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