Brutish

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brutish \Bru"tish\, a.
     Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel,
     gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
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           O, let all provocation


           Take every brutish shape it can devise.  --Leigh Hunt.
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           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.
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     Syn: Insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal;
          barbarous; inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual;
          bestial.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Bru"tish*ly}, adv. --
          {Bru"tish*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  brutish
       adj : resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
             "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force";
             "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of
             prisoners" [syn: {beastly}, {bestial}, {brute(a)}]