brutish
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English
Etymology
From brute + -ish
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈbɹʊut.ɪʃ/ SAMPA: /"bru:t.IS/
- Rhymes: -ʊutɪʃ
Adjective
brutish (comparative more brutish, superlative most brutish)
- Of, or in the manner of a brute
- Bestial; lacking human sensibility
Quotations
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
- No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy
- The haggard despair of Cotton-factory, Coal-mine operatives, Chandos Farm-labourers, in these days, is painful to behold; but not so painful, hideous to the inner sense, as the brutish god-forgetting Profit-and-Loss Philosophy, and Life-theory, which we hear jangled on all hands of us […]
External links
- brutish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- brutish in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- brutish at OneLook Dictionary Search
