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Brute
Brute Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Brute?
[n] a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
[n] a cruelly rapacious person Synonyms | Synonyms for Brute: animal | animate being | beast | beast | creature | fauna | savage | wildcat | wolf Related Terms | Find terms related to Brute: Adamic | animal | animalian | animalic | animalistic | anthropophagite | anthropophagous | atrocious | barbarian | barbaric | barbarous | beast | beastlike | beastly | beldam | berserk | berserker | bestial | blind | bloodthirsty | bloody | bloody-minded | bodily | bomber | brutal | brutalized | brutelike | brutish | cannibal | cannibalistic | carnal | carnal-minded | Circean | coarse | creature | creeping thing | critter | cruel | cruel-hearted | demon | demoniac | demoniacal | destroyer | devil | devilish | diabolic | Draconian | dragon | dull | dumb | dumb animal | dumb friend | earthy | fallen | fell | feral | ferine | ferocious | fiend | fiendish | fiendlike | fierce | firebrand | fire-eater | fleshly | fury | goon | gorilla | Goth | gross | gunsel | hardnose | hellcat | hellhound | hellion | hellish | hell-raiser | holy terror | hood | hoodlum | hothead | hotspur | hyena | incendiary | infernal | inhuman | inhumane | insensate | instinctive | instinctual | irrational | killer | lapsed | living being | living thing | mad dog | madcap | Mafioso | man-eater | material | materialistic | mindless | monster | mugger | murderous | Neanderthal | nihilist | nonrational | nonspiritual | orgiastic | physical | postlapsarian | rapist | revolutionary | ruthless | sadistic | sanguinary | sanguineous | satanic | savage | senseless | shark | sharkish | she-wolf | slavering | spitfire | subhuman | swinish | Tartarean | termagant | terror | terrorist | thoughtless | tiger | tigress | tough | tough guy | troglodyte | truculent | ugly customer | unchristian | uncivilized | unconscious | unfeeling | unhuman | unintelligent | unreasoning | unspiritual | unthinking | vandal | varmint | vicious | violent | virago | vixen | wild beast | wild man | witch | wolf | wolfish | wrecker | Young Turk | zoic | zooidal | zoologic See Also | acrodont | adult | aggressor | animal kingdom | animal tissue | Animalia | assailant | assaulter | attacker | being | biped | captive | caput | chordate | conceptus | creepy-crawly | critter | darter | dead animal | domestic animal | embryo | face | female | fertilized egg | fictional animal | game | giant | head | herbivore | insectivore | invertebrate | kingdom Animalia | larva | male | marine animal | mate | metazoan | migrator | molter | moulter | mutant | offspring | omnivore | organism | peeper | pet | pleurodont | predator | predatory animal | prey | pureblood | purebred | quarry | racer | scavenger | sea animal | stayer | stunt | survivor | thoroughbred | varment | varmint | vermin | work animal | young | zooplankton Brute In Webster's Dictionary \Brute\, a. [F. brut, nasc., brute, fem., raw, rough,
rude, brutish, L. brutus stupid, irrational: cf. It. & Sp.
bruto.]
1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious;
without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the
brute powers of nature.
2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute
beast; the brute creation.
A creature . . . not prone And brute as other
creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason.
--Milton.
3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast.
Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless;
as, brute violence. --Macaulay.
The influence of capital and mere brute labor.
--Playfair.
4. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental;
coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. --Sir W.
Scott.
5. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. [R.]
\Brute\, n. 1. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast. Brutes may be considered as either a["e]ral, terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious. --Locke. 2. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person. An ill-natured brute of a husband. --Franklin. Syn: See {Beast}. \Brute\, v. t. [For bruit.] To report; to bruit. [Obs.] |
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