Difference between Cruel and Brutal

CRUEL vs BRUTAL: NOUN

Causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or distress.
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
Used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause suffering
Lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy
Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
Not nice; mean; heartless.
Cool; awesome; neat.
(of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain

Synonyms Barbarous, savage, ferocious, brutal, merciless, unmerciful, pitiless, unfeeling, fell, ruthless, truculent, bloodthirsty, inexorable, unrelenting.
Proceeding from or exhibiting indifference to or pleasure in the suffering of others; causing pain, grief, or distress; performed or exerted in tormenting, vexing, or afflicting: as, a cruel act; a cruel disposition; the cruel treatment of animals.
Disposed to inflict suffering, physical or mental; indifferent to or taking pleasure in the pain or distress of any sentient being; willing or pleased to torment, vex, or afflict; destitute of pity, compassion, or kindness; hard-hearted; pitiless.
Very; extremely.

Pertaining to or resembling a brute; brutish: as, brutal nature; “brutal kind,”
Hence—2. Savage; cruel; inhuman; unfeeling: as, brutal passions; brutal manners.
Rude; harsh; coarse; crude.
=Syn.2. Brutish, Beastly, etc. (see brute); unfeeling, ruthless, rude, rough, gross, merciless, barbarous.
Punishingly harsh
Resembling a beast
Showing lack of human sensibility

Inhuman, Callous, Barbaric, Fell, Roughshod, Rigorous, Hard, Barbarous, Unkind, Harsh, Vicious, Savage, Heartless, Brutal, Inhumane

Ruthless, Gruesome, Horrific, Merciless, Fell, Roughshod, Rigorous, Hard, Unkind, Inhumane, Barbarous, Harsh, Cruel, Vicious, Savage

Inhuman, Callous, Barbaric, Fell, Roughshod, Rigorous, Hard, Barbarous, Unkind, Harsh, Vicious, Savage, Heartless, Brutal, Inhumane

Ruthless, Gruesome, Horrific, Merciless, Fell, Roughshod, Rigorous, Hard, Unkind, Inhumane, Barbarous, Harsh, Cruel, Vicious, Savage

The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, and torture would surely meet the standard of cruel and unusual.
The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance.
This extreme level of cruel treatment of a human being, however despicably such person might have treated another human being, is still inherently cruel.
Every cruel child is on the hunt for them; every cruel ride is engineered for their destruction.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose a duty to investigate observed or reasonably suspected animal abandonment, cruel neglect, or cruel mistreatment.
The only thing that makes me feel better is knowing ur in a better place and away from this cruel, cruel world!
It does not please my lord that anyone should mistreat me, you cruel, cruel people.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment, or Just Plain Cruel?
PERFECT run, but fate was a cruel, cruel mistress.
Oh, what a cruel, cruel woman Barbara Hambly was.

NPC inside a brutal, open world video game.
My divorce has been long, complicated and brutal.
Which means their training is brutal and intense.
Steamboat Sully, who engage in a brutal fistfight.
Murder Arrest Made in Brutal Killing of Sen.
Brutal bloody battles with men and brutal bloody battles with monsters.
Runs the gamut from more melodic acts all the way to overlapping with brutal deathcore, but is generally on the more brutal end.
Brutal Black Dragons to help you all try and make the most money per hour at Brutal Black Dragons!
Beautiful girl next door suffers brutal elbow bondage, her first brutal bondage shoot.
Catacombs of Kourend, between the brutal blue and brutal black dragons.