BRUTISH

beastly, bestial, brute, brutish, brutal

(adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; “beastly desires”; “a bestial nature”; “brute force”; “a dull and brutish man”; “bestial treatment of prisoners”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

brutish (comparative more brutish, superlative most brutish)

Of, or in the manner of a brute

Bestial; lacking human sensibility

Source: Wiktionary


Bru"tish, a.

Definition: Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.

Syn.

– Insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal; barbarous; inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual; bestial.

– Bru"tish*ly, adv.

– Bru"tish*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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