brute
About 2.54 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Without reason or intelligence (of animals). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
a brute beast
- adjective Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
- adjective Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
the brute earth; the brute powers of nature
- adjective Crude, unpolished.
- adjective Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature.
I got the door open through brute force.
- adjective Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
brute violence
- noun An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
- noun 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."
Similar words
brutish savage inhumane beastly bestial beast creature fauna wolf wildcat
Often followed by
force creation strength and of fact beasts animals facts
Word family
brutes
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