brutalist

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noun

Someone that follows brutalism.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

brutalist1

nounbrutalist (plural brutalists)

plural brutalists

  1. Someone that follows brutalism.
adjectivebrutalist (comparative more brutalist, superlative most brutalist)

comparative more brutalist · superlative most brutalist

  1. 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

adjectiveBrutalist (comparative more Brutalist, superlative most Brutalist)

comparative more Brutalist · superlative most Brutalist

  1. 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
nounBrutalist (plural Brutalists)

plural Brutalists

  1. An architect who used this style

Origin

brutalist · noun, adjective

From brutal + -ist.

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Brutalist · adjective, noun

From brutal + -ist.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Portuguese brutalista, brutalista
  • brutalistapertaining to Brutalism
  • brutalistaan architect who used Brutalism
Cite this entry
APA

brutalist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brutalist

MLA

“brutalist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brutalist. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “brutalist,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brutalist.

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