Bru'tish, a.

a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; having some of the qualities or characteristics of brutes; insensible; unfeeling; brutal; bestial; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may indeed render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and destiny of the brute. I. Taylor. Syn.— Ignorant; untaught; insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal; barbarous; inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual; bestial.