brute.
Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
Meaning & usage
Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
a brute beast
Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
the brute earth; the brute powers of nature
Crude, unpolished.
Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature.
I got the door open through brute force.
Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
brute violence
Where this word comes from
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).
An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
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."
A kind of powerful spotlight.
One who has not yet matriculated.
Where this word comes from
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).
To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
Where this word comes from
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).
Obsolete spelling of bruit.
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