[ adj ] resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility <adj.all> beastly desiresa bestial nature brute force a dull and brutish man bestial treatment of prisoners
Brutish \Bru"tish\, a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. --Leigh Hunt.
Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. --I. Taylor.