| Main Entry: | brute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very strong; animal-like |
Synonyms: |
animal, beastly, bestial, bodily, carnal, feral, ferine, fleshly, instinctive, mindless, physical, senseless, swinish, unthinking |
Antonyms: |
gentle, mild, weak |
| Main Entry: | brute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | barbarian |
Synonyms: |
animal, beast, cannibal, creature, critter, degenerate, devil, fiend, lout, monster, ogre, ruffian, sadist, savage, swine, wild animal |
Antonyms: |
gentleman, humanitarian |
| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beastlike; carnal |
Synonyms: |
beastly, bestial, bodily, brute, brutish, corporeal, earthly, earthy, feral, fleshy, mammalian, muscular, natural, physical, sensual, untamed, wild, zoological |
| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate being; mammal |
Synonyms: |
beast, being, brute, bum*, creature, critter, invertebrate, living thing, mutt, pet, stray, varmint, vertebrate, wild thing |
Antonyms: |
mineral, plant |
| Main Entry: | barbarian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crude, savage person |
Synonyms: |
beast, bigot, boor, brute, cannibal, clod, hooligan, hun, ignoramus, lout, monster, philistine, rascal, ruffian, troglodyte, vandal |
Antonyms: |
sophisticate |
| Main Entry: | beastly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | savage; vulgar |
Synonyms: |
abominable, animal, barbarous, base, bestial, boorish, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, cruel, degraded, depraved, disgusting, feral, ferine, foul, gluttonous, gross, inhuman, irrational, loathsome, low, monstrous, obscene, piggish, prurient, repulsive, sadistic, swinish, unclean, vile |
Antonyms: |
good, kind, nice, superior |
| Main Entry: | boor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clod |
Synonyms: |
barbarian, bear, boob*, brute, buffoon, cad, churl, dork, goon, lout, oaf, peasant, philistine, rube, vulgarian |
| Notes: | a boar is a male pig; a boor is a person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement; a bore is one that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious |
Antonyms: |
charmer, enthusiast, exciter |
| Main Entry: | brutal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, rough |
Synonyms: |
animal, bearish, beastly, bestial, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, feral, ferine, inhuman, inhumane, rude, savage, swinish, unfeeling |
Antonyms: |
gentle, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | cannibal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beast, beastlike human |
Synonyms: |
aborigine, anthropophaginian, anthropophagite, anthropophagus, brute, bush dweller, cruel person, head-hunter, ogre, ogress, primitive, ruffian, savage |
| Main Entry: | creature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being, beast |
Synonyms: |
animal, body, brute, creation, critter, fellow, individual, living being, living thing, lower animal, man, mortal, party, person, personage, quadruped, soul, varmint, woman |
Antonyms: |
abstract, inanimate |