a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. [ 1913 Webster ] O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] Syn. -- Insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal; barbarous; inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual; bestial. [ 1913 Webster ] -- Bru"tish*ly, adv. -- Bru"tish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ] |