Meanings
brutalist1
comparative more brutalist · superlative most brutalist
- Of or pertaining to brutalism.
Standing on the corner of a west Hollywood street in Los Angeles is a giant pink building, brutalist in design but strikingly modern in style, and it is owned by Beeston's own fashionista Paul Smith.
2021 April 16, Joseph Locker, “Paul Smith's 'pink wall' in Los Angeles becomes Insta-famous”, in Nottingham Post, archived from the original on 15 May 2021
Brutalist2
comparative more Brutalist · superlative most Brutalist
- architecturePertaining to Brutalism, a style of modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-marked concrete
[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54
Origin
Translations
Portuguese brutalista, brutalista
- brutalistapertaining to Brutalism
- brutalistaan architect who used Brutalism
Cite this entry
brutalist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brutalist
“brutalist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brutalist. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “brutalist,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brutalist.
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