brutish Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
    bestial; brute; brutal; beastly.
    • beastly desires
    • a bestial nature
    • brute force
    • a dull and brutish man
    • bestial treatment of prisoners

WordNet

Bru"tish adjective
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913