Dictionary entry

Brutish

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bru″tish (brṳ″tĭsh), a. 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.