brute
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brute
a beast; a brutal person; savage; cruel
Not to be confused with:
brut – very dry, as champagne
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brute
(bro͞ot)n.
1. An animal other than a human; a beast.
2. A brutal, crude, or insensitive person.
adj.
1. Of or relating to animals other than humans: "None of the brute creation requires more than food and shelter" (Henry David Thoreau).
2. Characteristic of a brute, especially:
a. Entirely physical: brute force.
b. Lacking or showing a lack of reason or intelligence: a brute impulse.
c. Savage; cruel: brute coercion.
d. Unremittingly severe: was driven to steal food through brute necessity.
3. Coarse; brutish.
[From Middle English, nonhuman, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus, stupid; see gwerə- in Indo-European roots.]
brut′ism n.
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brute
(bruːt)n
1.
a. any animal except man; beast; lower animal
b. (as modifier): brute nature.
2. a brutal person
adj (prenominal)
3. wholly instinctive or physical (esp in the phrases brute strength, brute force)
4. without reason or intelligence
5. coarse and grossly sensual
[C15: from Latin brūtus heavy, irrational; related to gravis heavy]
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brute
(brut)n.
1. a nonhuman creature; beast.
2. a savage, insensitive, or crude person.
3. the animal qualities, desires, etc., of humankind: to bring out the brute in someone.
adj. 4. animal; not human.
5. not intelligent; irrational.
6. savage; cruel: brute force.
7. carnal; sensual.
[1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French < Latin brūtus heavy, devoid of feeling, irrational]
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Noun | 1. | brute - a cruelly rapacious person |
2. | brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement organism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently ritual killing, sacrifice - the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity tracking, trailing - the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia - taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals pest - any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides" critter - a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals) creepy-crawly - an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects) darter - a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly; "squirrels are darters" peeper - an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds homeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm - an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature ectotherm, poikilotherm - an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals range animal - any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep) scavenger - any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter work animal - an animal trained for and used for heavy labor domestic animal, domesticated animal - any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment feeder - an animal that feeds on a particular source of food; "a bark feeder"; "a mud feeder" migrator - an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year molter, moulter - an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) pet - a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement stayer - a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance; "the horse that won the race is a good stayer" stunt - a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth marine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature - any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals female - an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) male - an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) adult - any mature animal pureblood, purebred, thoroughbred - a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses giant - any creature of exceptional size survivor - an animal that survives in spite of adversity; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters" mutant - an animal that has undergone mutation herbivore - any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants; "horses are herbivores"; "the sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores" insectivore - any organism that feeds mainly on insects acrodont - an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets pleurodont - an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets microorganism, micro-organism - any organism of microscopic size actinomycete - any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales zooplankton - animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae conceptus, fertilized egg, embryo - an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life chordate - any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column invertebrate - any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification metazoan - any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges omnivore - an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances predatory animal, predator - any animal that lives by preying on other animals game - animal hunted for food or sport | |
Adj. | 1. | brute - resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" inhumane - lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion; "humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used" |
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brute
noun
2. beast, animal, creature, wild animal a big brute of a dog
adjective
1. physical, bodily, mindless, instinctive, senseless, unthinking He used brute force to take control.
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إِنْسانٌ قاسٍوَحْش
suroveczvíře
børstebrutalkrærå
eläinelukkaraakalainen
fantur, óòokkiskepna
brutalumasbrutalusžvėriškas
brutāls cilvēksdzīvniecisksdzīvnieka-dzīvniekslops
hayvanhayvanîzalim kimse
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[bruːt]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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[bruːt]Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
brute
(bruːt) noun1. an animal other than man. My dog died yesterday, the poor brute; (also adjective) brute force.
2. a cruel person.
ˈbrutal adjective very cruel or severe. a brutal beating.
bruˈtality (-ˈtӕ-) nounˈbrutish adjective
of, or like, a brute. brutish manners.
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