Meaning: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering. Synonyms: barbarous; cruel; fell; savage; vicious; brutal; roughshod. Context examples: a barbarous crime / brutal beatings / cruel tortures / Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks / a savage slap / vicious kicks. Similar:
The film was extremely successful on release in 2001 and it helped establish DreamWorks as a prime competitor to Disney and Pixar in the field of feature film animation, particularly in computer animation.
In 1990, Shrek was merely a crudely drawn childrenâs story in William Steigâs picture book Shrek! It wasnât until a decade later that Shrek got a computer-animated facelift and a Scottish accent courtesy of Mike Myers. The ogre who never wanted to leave his swamp quickly became a mass media phenomenon.