Brute

Quick meaning: Brute is an adjective meaning Without reason or intelligence (of animals).

Meaning

Without reason or intelligence (of animals).

More Meanings

1. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
2. Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
3. Crude, unpolished.
4. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature.
5. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
6. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted.
7. (archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.

Example Sentences

a brute beast

a great brute farmer from Liddesdale

I got the door open through brute force.

the brute earth; the brute powers of nature

Word Forms

• brutes
• bruting
• bruted

Synonyms for brute

Depending on context, synonyms include beast, bestial, creature, animal, brutish, wolf.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brutish, savage, inhumane, beastly, bestial, beast.

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