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. - HEATHENISHNESS
The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne. - FERINE
Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. Sir M. Hale. -- n. - 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.