brute

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Synonyms: brume, brut, bruce, brite, bute, brule, bruta, brune, crute, brue, rute

Antonyms: brume, brut, bruce, brite, bute, brule, bruta, brune, crute, brue, rute

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Adjective

1. Without reason or intelligence (of animals). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
   • a brute beast
2. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
3. Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
   • the brute earth; the brute powers of nature
4. Crude, unpolished.
5. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature.
   • I got the door open through brute force.
6. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
   • brute violence

Noun

1. An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
2. 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."
3. A kind of powerful spotlight.
4. One who has not yet matriculated.

Verb

1. To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.

Verb

1. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

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