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What is the adjective for brutishness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs brutalize, brute, brutalise and brutify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

brute
  1. Without reason or intelligence (of animals). [from 15th c.]
  2. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans). [from 16th c.]
  3. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. [from 16th c.]
  4. Crude, unpolished. [from 17th c.]
  5. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
  6. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
  7. Inexplicable
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “Neanderthals are described as being capable of far more than mere brute, animalistic behavior.”
      “The younger lumberjack quickly went to task chopping down trees, using his brute strength to forge his way to anticipated victory.”
      “The state's use of brute force in dealing with opponents has created an environment where violence has become the norm.”
brutal
  1. Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel
  2. Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
  3. Harsh; unrelenting
  4. Disagreeably precise or penetrating
  5. (music) In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The rebellion finally succeeded in overthrowing the corrupt and brutal dictatorship.”
      “This brutal instinct continues to function in some individuals, who represent among us the vestiges of an ancestral condition.”
      “Some weblogs, with their lacerating, brutal honesty, transport you to the extremities of human experience.”
brutist
  1. Characteristic of a brute; brutal
  2. brutalist
brutalitarian
brutelike
brutish
  1. Of, or in the manner of a brute
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Look at this hateful trickster and brutish tyrant knave, led on by evil passions.”
      “John Crocker had known he had made an enemy, but with a shrug, he'd dismissed the thought, for what sort of hollow threat could that brutish oaf offer?”
      “As the group of witches stand together and watch the dog, their special powers start leaching out of them. In the presence of this brutish animal, they cannot remember their spells, protections and curses.”
brutalized
brutalizing
bruted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of brute
bruting
  1. present participle of brute
brutalised
  1. (Britain) simple past tense and past participle of brutalise
brutalising
  1. (Britain) present participle of brutalise
brutified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of brutify
brutifying
  1. present participle of brutify
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