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Webster 1913 Edition

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

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.

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Bru′tish-ly

adv.

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Bru′tish-ness

Noun.

Adj.

Like a brute or beast; as a brutish form.

Insensible; stupid; as brutish men.

Unfeeling; savage; ferocious; brutal.

Gross; carnal; bestial.

Ignorant; uncivilized; untaught.