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Brute

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Noun

1. beast, brute, savage, wildcat, wolf

a cruelly rapacious person

2. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Adjective

3. beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish

resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

Example Sentences:
'beastly desires'
'a bestial nature'
'brute force'
'a dull and brutish man'
'bestial treatment of prisoners'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Brute

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noun
1. 
a. 
any animal except man; beast; lower animal
b. 
(as modifier)
brute nature
2. 
a brutal person
adjective (prenominal)
3. 
wholly instinctive or physical (esp in the phrases brute strength, brute force)
4. 
without reason or intelligence
5. 
coarse and grossly sensual

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Brute

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adjective
1. 
lacking the ability to reason
a brute beast
2. 
having no consciousness or feelings; insensate
the brute force of nature
3. 
of or like an animal; specif., brutal, cruel, gross, sensual, stupid, etc.
noun
4. 
an animal
5. 
a person who is brutal or very stupid, gross, sensual, etc.

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Brute

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n.
1. An animal other than a human; a beast.
2. A brutal, crude, or insensitive person.
adj.
1. Of or relating to animals other than humans: "None of the brute creation requires more than food and shelter" (Henry David Thoreau).
2. Characteristic of a brute, especially:
a. Entirely physical: brute force.
b. Lacking or showing a lack of reason or intelligence: a brute impulse.
c. Savage; cruel: brute coercion.
d. Unremittingly severe: was driven to steal food through brute necessity.
3. Coarse; brutish.

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