BRUTISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brutish mean? 

• BRUTISH (adjective)
  The adjective BRUTISH has 1 sense:

1. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

  Familiarity information: BRUTISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRUTISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

Synonyms:

beastly; bestial; brutal; brute; brutish

Context example:

bestial treatment of prisoners

Similar:

inhumane (lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion)

 Context examples 

Besides, strength to her was a gross and brutish thing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I do not suppose that, when a drunkard reasons with himself upon his vice, he is once out of five hundred times affected by the dangers that he runs through his brutish, physical insensibility; neither had I, long as I had considered my position, made enough allowance for the complete moral insensibility and insensate readiness to evil, which were the leading characters of Edward Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)