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Currish vs Brutal - What's the difference?

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Currish is a related term of brutal.


As adjectives the difference between currish and brutal

is that currish is pertaining to a cur or mongrel while brutal is (senseid)savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel.

currish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
  • Ignoble, mean-spirited.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.4:
  • more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].
  • *, II.1.3:
  • *:God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.
  • Synonyms

    * doggish

    brutal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (senseid)Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel
  • Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
  • Harsh; unrelenting
  • Disagreeably precise or penetrating
  • (music, figuratively) In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.
  • Synonyms

    * barbaric * cold-blooded * savage * vicious

    Antonyms

    * gentle * kind