Brutish

Definition: Brutish

Brutish

Adjective

1. Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "brutish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Brutish

Commonalty

Rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked.

Intemperance

Brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish.

Malevolence

Cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger; ferine, ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty; (murderous); atrocious; bloodyminded.

Vulgarity

Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic,

Crosswords: Brutish

Books

• Hagar the Horrible: The Brutish Are Coming (reference)

• Nasty, Brutish and Short Stories (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If men were so void of reason, and brutish, as to enter into society upon such terms, prerogative might indeed be, what some men would have it, an arbitrary power to do things hurtful to the people. (Second Treatise of Government)

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It shocked him to find in the outer world a trace of what he had deemed till then a brutish and individual malady of his own mind

The one is commonly transitory, a sound, a tongue, a dialect merely, almost brutish, and we learn it unconsciously, like the brutes, of our mothers

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "brutish": beastly bestial bruteprenominal brutish cannibalic. Additional references.

Beginning with "brutish": brutish-looking.

Albanian

brutal (bestial, boorish, brutal, Randy, rank, rusty, slangy, truculent, unfinished, unhandsome, unrefined), shtazarak (beastly, bestial), i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brute, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, savage, truculent, unfeeling, vicious, wanton, wild), ‏حيواني (animal, zoological), ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany), ‏بهيمي (animal, beastly, bestial, brute). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скотски, животински (animal, beastly, bestial, organic). (various references)

Czech

zvířecký (beastly), tupý (blunt, cloddish, dense, dozy, dull, empty headed, indocile, mindful, obtuse, pointless, stolid, stupid, thickheaded, torpid, vacant, vacuous), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar). (various references)

Dutch

beestachtig (beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, harsh). (various references)

Esperanto

bestia (beastly, bestial, brutal). (various references)

Farsi 

حیوانی (Animal, Bestial), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Churlish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Truculent, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden), درشت (Abrupt, Crass, Gross, Gruff, Harsh, Jumbo, Large, Lump, Rough, Sturdy), ددمنش , بی شعور. (various references)

Finnish

eläimellinen (animal, bestial, brutal). (various references)

French

brutal (brusque, brutal, brute), bestial, de brute (brute), animal. (various references)

German

viehisch (beastly, brute, swinish), vertiert. (various references)

Greek 

κτηνώδησ (beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, ruffian), κτηνώδης (brutal, truculent), ζωώδησ (animal, subhuman). (various references)

Hebrew 

חיתי (beastly, bestial, brute), ב�"מי (animal, beastly, brute), � בער (ignorant, stupid). (various references)

Hungarian

állatias (animalistic, beastly, bestial, feral, inhuman), baromi (bestial, brute), állati (animal, animalistic, beastly, brutal, crackajack, crack-a-jack, feral, inhuman, zoological). (various references)

Indonesian

kasar (abrupt, abusive, artless, blunt, boorish, broad, brutal, crass, crude, curt, disrespectful, gruff, menial, raw, rude, unkind, vulgar). (various references)

Italian

brutale (bestial, brutal, brute, tough), bestiale (beastly, bestial, feral, incredible, terrible). (various references)

Manx

broutagh (bestial, brutal, ruffianly), beishtagh (beastly, bestial, monstrosity, monstrous). (various references)

Pig Latin

utishbray.(various references)

Portuguese

bruto (animal, beast, bestial, brute, crude, gross, ill-mannered, raw, rawhide, rude), brutal (beastly, brutal, brute, cruel, harsh, rough, rude), bestial (atrocious, beastly, bestial, brutal, savage, sledge-hammer), sensual (amative, bestial, boarish, carnal, concupiscent, epicurean, fleshly, goatish, high-sounding, incontinent, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lubricous, lustful, sensual, sensuous, sexy, unreserved, voluptuous, wanton), material (corporeal, data, gear, incarnate, material, materialistic, metals, physical, stuff, worldly), inferior (bad, below, blanket, bottom, catchpenny, cheap, coarse, common, corny, currish, dependant, dependent, ground floor, hereinafter, inelaborate, inferior, less, lesser, low, mean, menial, minor, nether, poor, subordinate, trashy, under, undermost, unequal, wishy-washy), animal (animal, beast). (various references)

Romanian

bestial (beastly, bestial, bestially, brutally, feral, ferine), sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, cruel, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, fiery, haggard, harsh, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, savage, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild, wild man), grosolan (boorish, broad, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar), dobitocesc (beastly), de brutã. (various references)

Russian 

грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly), зверский (atrocious, brutal, effing, fiendish, lupine, monstrous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

životinjski (animal, beastly, bestial). (various references)

Spanish

bruto (a b c, a.b.c., abc, beast, brute, coarse, crude, currish, gross, raw, sod, stupid), brutal (bestial, brutal, brute, rough, ruffianly, swinish), bestial (beastly, bestial). (various references)

Swedish

djurisk (animal, beastly, bestial, brute, subhuman). (various references)

Thai

เยี่ยงสัตว์เ�"รัจฉาน. (various references)

Turkish

yabani (bestial, brutal, brute, fair, feral, haggard, savage, untamed, wild), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), hayvani (bestial, brute). (various references)

Ukrainian

хтивий (brute, carnal, concupiscent, fulsome, goatish, lascivious, lewd, lickerish), тупоголовий (fatheaded, heavy-handed, nowt, numskull, thick-headed), жорстокий (atrocious, barbarous, bloody minded, brutal, brute, cruel, cutthroat, despiteful, feral, ferocious, merciless, oppressive, outrageous, ruthless, stern, uncharitable). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vũ phu hung ác (brute), t� n bạo ngu đần, có tính chất thú vật, đần độn (anserine, blear-eyed, blockish, boeotian, chuckle-headed, cock-eyed, doltish, fat-headed, fatuous, fat-witted, feather-brained, feather-headed, feather-pate, feather-pated, muddle-headed, muddy-headed, pigheaded, puddingy, purblind, slow-witted, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unapprehensive, witless). (various references)

Welsh

bwystfilaidd (beastly, bestial), ysgrublaidd (animal, brute), anifeilaidd (animal, beastly). (various references)

stolidus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "brutish": brutishly, brutishness, brutishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Brutish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brattish, breetish, Bretesche, brieish, britis, british, brittish, brritish, butism, krautish, ritish, ruttish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: births, bruits, hubris.

-2 letters: bhuts, birth, brits, bruit, brush, buhrs, burst, hurst, hurts, ruths, shirt, shrub.

-3 letters: bhut, bits, bris, brit, brut, buhr, burs, bush, bust, buts, hist, hits, hubs, hurt, huts, rhus, ribs, rubs, rush, rust, ruth, ruts, shri, shut, sith, stir, stub, suit, thir, this, thru, thus, tubs, tuis, tush, urbs.

+1 letter: turbiths.

+2 letters: bothriums, brushiest, brutishly, hubristic, thuribles.

+3 letters: butcheries, butterfish, paintbrush, shrubbiest, superbitch.

+4 letters: bitterbrush, brutishness, rabbitbrush, superbright, thumbprints, tribuneship.

+5 letters: brushability, bullfighters, butterfishes, paintbrushes, superbitches, thunderbirds, tribuneships.