Sekirov Dictionary

brute

/bɹuːt/

adjective 6
noun 4
verb 1
forms 6

adjective6

Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
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Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
- the brute earth; the brute powers of nature
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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.
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Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
- A creature […] not prone / And brute as other creatures, but endued / With sanctity of reason. — 1667
Crude, unpolished.

noun4

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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.
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(no longer used) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
- ‘That animal has a charmed life,’ he said; ‘but you can say this only of brutes in this country. No man - you apprehend me? - no man here bears a charmed life.’ — 1899
(UK, no longer used) One who has not yet matriculated.

verb1

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

forms

bruted · bruting · brutes · more brute · brutest · most brute

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