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Untamed vs Brutish - What's the difference?

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Untamed is a related term of brutish.


As adjectives the difference between untamed and brutish

is that untamed is wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact while brutish is of, or in the manner of a brute.

untamed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.
    • The mustang is an untamed horse that roams where it wants, with little interest in humans.
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    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.}}

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