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Brute   /brut/   Listen
noun
Brute  n.  
1.
An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast. "Brutes may be considered as either aerial, terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious."
2.
A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person. "An ill-natured brute of a husband."
Synonyms: See Beast.


verb
Brute  v. t.  To report; to bruit. (Obs.)


adjective
Brute  adj.  
1.
Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
2.
Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation. "A creature... not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason."
3.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence. "The influence of capital and mere brute labor."
4.
Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. "A great brute farmer from Liddesdale."
5.
Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. (R.)
brute force, The application of predominantly physical effort to achieve a goal that could be accomplished with less effort if more carefully considered. Figuratively, repetitive or strenuous application of an obvious or simple tactic, as contrasted with a more clever stratagem achieving the same goal with less effort; as, the first prime numbers were discovered by the brute force repetition of the Sieve of Eratosthenes.





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"Brute" Quotes from Famous Books



... holy terror of a brute. If you shoot be sure you get him, or he'll jump you like he did me. He's mad clear through. Hi! look out. he's scented you ...
— The House Boat Boys • St. George Rathborne
... brute declined to go mad. They began to respect him for this tenacity of purpose: a decent bedroom was allotted him; his portmanteau and bag were brought him, and he was let walk every day on the lawn with a keeper; only there were no ladders left about, and the trap-door was locked, ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... defence, while the forepart is duly fenced with teeth, which a man cannot only use to chew, but also to defend himself against those things that offend him. Thus, by the testimony and astipulation of the brute beasts, she drew all the witless herd and mob of fools into her opinion, and was admired by all brainless and ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... for myself, I should have rejoiced at any interruption which might have enabled me to get the wanderer home. The noise was, at length, very effectually silenced by Jupiter, who, getting out of the hole with a dogged air of deliberation, tied the brute's mouth up with one of his suspenders, and then returned, with a grave chuckle, to ...
— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne
... slang of its own. This is a matter of course. The vast cattle and sheep industries, the strange aspects of the country, and the strange native animals, brute and human, are matters which would naturally breed a local slang. I have notes of this slang somewhere, but at the moment I can call to mind only a few of the words and phrases. They are expressive ones. The wide, sterile, unpeopled deserts ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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