Word Meanings - BRUTISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: BRUTISH

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRUTISH)

• Brutal
• Savage
• inhuman
• rude
• unfeeling
• merciless
• ruthless
• brutish
• barbarous
• sensual
• beastly
• ignorant
• stolid
• dense
• cruel
• violent
• vindictive
• bloodthirsty
• intemperate
• Ferocious
• ferine
• wild
• uncultivated
• untamed
• untaught
• uncivilized
• unpolished
• brutal
• heathenish
• fierce
• truculent
• pitiless
• murderous
• malevolent

Related words: (words related to BRUTISH)

• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• FERINE
  Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. Sir M. Hale. -- n.
• HEATHENISHNESS
  The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
• MERCILESS
  Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak. Syn. -- Cruel; unmerciful; remorseless; ruthless; pitiless;
• DENSE
  1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• SENSUALISTIC
  1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
• TRUCULENTLY
  In a truculent manner.
• STOLIDNESS
  See STOLIDITY
• SENSUAL
  1. Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends,
• SENSUALISM
  The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism. (more info) 1. The condition or character of one
• BRUTAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. "Above the rest of brutal kind." Milton. 2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal intemperance." Macaulay.
• BRUTALLY
  In a brutal manner; cruelly.
• VIOLENT
  probably akin to Gr. 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float
• INTEMPERATENESS
  1. The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking. 2. Severity of weather; inclemency. Boyle. By unseasonable weather, by intemperateness of the air or meteors. Sir M.
• FEROCIOUS
  Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion. The humbled power of a ferocious enemy. Lowth. Syn. -- Ferocious, Fierce, Savage, Barbarous. When these words are applied
• INHUMANLY
  In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.
• DENSELY
  In a dense, compact manner.
• CRUELS
  Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
• AYUNTAMIENTO
  In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.
• SEMISAVAGE
  Half savage.