brut・ishの英語

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbɹuːt.ɪʃ/
• 韻: -uːtɪʃ

形容詞

brutish (comparative more brutish, superlative most brutish)

1. Of, or in the manner of a brute.
2. Bestial; lacking human sensibility.

   Synonyms: animalistic, beastly; barbaric, wolfish; see also Thesaurus:animallike, Thesaurus:savage

   • 2009 March 30, Edward Rothstein, “Casting a Sliver of Light on the Heart of Darkness”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 27 July 2020:

     And then came others, possessing weaponry and a sophisticated support before which tribes in dense jungles had no recourse: European concessionaires and feckless traders, brutish exploiters and enslavers.

   • 2019, Rachel Barney, “Becoming Bad: Aristotle on Vice and Moral Habituation”, in Victor Caston, editor, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, volume LVII, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 275:

     In working out Aristotle’s view, it may help to keep in mind some of its rivals. We have a rich cultural gallery of competing candidates for the titles bad, vicious, evil, worst. There is the pursuer of disvalue as such, like Hannibal Lecter or Milton’s Satan; the wanton or brutish slave to low desires; the Dostoevskeian outlaw, committer of some unforgiveable crime; and the amoral egoist or sociopath who greets all moral considerations with a shrug.

引用

For quotations using this term, see Citations:brutish.

派生語

Further reading

• “brutish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “brutish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “brutish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.