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Webster 1913 Edition
Brutish
Bru′tish
,Adj.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
O, let all provocation
Take every
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
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Brutish
BRU'TISH
,Adj.
1.
Insensible; stupid; as brutish men.2.
Unfeeling; savage; ferocious; brutal.3.
Gross; carnal; bestial.4.
Ignorant; uncivilized; untaught.Definition 2024
brutish
brutish
English
Adjective
brutish (comparative more brutish, superlative most brutish)
- Of, or in the manner of a brute
- Bestial; lacking human sensibility
Quotations
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
- No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy
- The haggard despair of Cotton-factory, Coal-mine operatives, Chandos Farm-labourers, in these days, is painful to behold; but not so painful, hideous to the inner sense, as the brutish god-forgetting Profit-and-Loss Philosophy, and Life-theory, which we hear jangled on all hands of us […]
- 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
- But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Translations
Of, or in the manner of a brute
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Bestial; lacking human sensibility