Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

brutalist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English

Syllables: bru-tal-ist
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to Brutalism, a style of modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-marked concrete

noun

An architect who used this style

noun

Someone that follows brutalism.

Example Sentences

"[...] 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."

Etymology

From brutal + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: brutal

Inflected Forms

more Brutalist (comparative) most Brutalist (superlative) Brutalists (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

brutalism

Questions

What does brutalist mean?: Pertaining to Brutalism, a style of modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-marked concrete
Where does brutalist come from?: From brutal + -ist.

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