: resembling, befitting, or typical of a brute or beast
brutish strength
brutish violence
But its skull is curiously brutish, with thickened braincase walls, massive browridges, and evidence of powerful neck muscles. All in all, H. erectus fits the familiar stereotype of the … caveman. Matt Cartmill
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a
: strongly and grossly sensual
brutish gluttony
He thinks he is a poetic amorist; he is a brutish sensualist. Stanley Kauffmann
b
: showing little intelligence or sensibility
a brutish lack of understanding
Life without enlightenment is nasty and brutish, yet it is the natural condition … Frank Kermode
brutal applies to people, their acts, or their words and suggests a lack of intelligence, feeling, or humanity.
a senseless and brutal war
brutish stresses likeness to an animal in low intelligence, in base appetites, and in behavior based on instinct.
brutish stupidity
bestial suggests a state of degradation unworthy of humans and fit only for beasts.
bestial depravity
feral suggests the savagery or ferocity of wild animals.
the struggle to survive unleashed their feral impulses
Example Sentences
She is married to a brutish, drunken slob. as the months of recurrent combat dragged on, the daily existence of the soldiers became increasingly brutish
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