Meaning of BRUTISH
| Pronunciation: | | 'brootish
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | beastly, bestial, brute(a), inhumane |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bru"tish\, 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.
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