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Brutish vs Carnal - What's the difference?

brutish | carnal | Synonyms |

Brutish is a synonym of carnal.


As adjectives the difference between brutish and carnal

is that brutish is of, or in the manner of a brute while carnal is relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.

brutish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or in the manner of a brute
  • Bestial; lacking human sensibility
  • Quotations

    * 1651 , (Thomas Hobbes), *: No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish , and short. * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy *: The haggard despair of Cotton-factory, Coal-mine operatives, Farm-labourers, in these days, is painful to behold; but not so painful, hideous to the inner sense, as the brutish god-forgetting Profit-and-Loss Philosophy, and Life-theory, which we hear jangled on all hands of us […] * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

    carnal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites
  • worldly or earthly; temporal
  • of or relating to the body or flesh
  • Derived terms

    * carnal knowledge