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Brute
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- 1 Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
"a brute beast"
- 2 Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
"A creature […] not prone / And brute as other creatures, but endued / With sanctity of reason."
- 3 Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
"the brute earth; the brute powers of nature"
- 4 Crude, unpolished.
"a great brute farmer from Liddesdale"
- 5 Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature.
"I got the door open through brute force."
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- 6 Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
"brute violence"
- 1 resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility wordnet
- 1 An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. archaic
"they laid before them how unbecoming it was the Dignity of such sublime Creatures to be sollicitous about gratifying those Appetites, which they had in common with Brutes, and at the same time unmindful of those higher qualities that gave them the preeminence over all visible Beings."
- 2 a living organism characterized by voluntary movement wordnet
- 3 A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted.
"One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail.""
- 4 a cruelly rapacious person wordnet
- 5 A kind of powerful spotlight.
"For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]"
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- 6 One who has not yet matriculated. UK, archaic
- 1 To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other. transitive
- 2 Obsolete spelling of bruit. alt-of, obsolete
Etymology
From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú) (English guru).
From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú) (English guru).
From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú) (English guru).
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