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Definition of 'brute'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) brute
a nonhuman creature; beast.

2.  brute
a savage, insensitive, or crude person.

3.  brute
the animal qualities, desires, etc., of humankind:
to bring out the brute in someone.

4. (adj.) brute
animal; not human.

5.  brute
not intelligent; irrational.

6.  brute
savage; cruel:
brute force.

7.  brute
carnal; sensual.

Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME < MF < L brūtus heavy, devoid of feeling, irrational)

Definition of 'brute'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat
a cruelly rapacious person

2. (adj) animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

3. (adj) beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal
resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"

Definition of 'brute'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) brute
not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature

2. (adj) brute
not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation

3. (adj) brute
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence

4. (adj) brute
having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent

5. (adj) brute
rough; uncivilized; unfeeling

6. (noun) brute
an animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast

7. (noun) brute
a brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person

8. (verb) brute
to report; to bruit

Translation of 'brute'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: an animal other than man My dog died yesterday, the poor brute; (
Afrikaans: dier, ondier	Arabic: وَحْش	Bulgarian: животно
Brazilian: animal	Czech: zvíře(cí)	German: das Vieh
Danish: kræ; brutal; rå	Greek: ζώο, κτήνος	Spanish: animal, bestia
Estonian: loom, loomalik	Farsi: حیوان	Finnish: peto
French: bête, brutal	Hebrew: חַיָה	Hindi: वहशी
Croatian: beštija	Hungarian: állat	Indonesian: binatang
Italian: bestia; bruto	Japanese: 獣	Korean: 짐승
Lithuanian: žvėris, gyvulys; grubus	Latvian: dzīvnieks; lops; dzīvniek	Malay: tidak berakal
Dutch: beest; bruut	Norwegian: (u)dyr; rå, grov, dyrisk	Polish: zwierzę, bydlę
Persian: حیوان	Pashto: حیوان	Portuguese: animal
Romanian: dobitoc; brută	Russian: животное; животный, грубы	Slovak: zviera; zvierací
Slovenian: žival; živalski, zverinsk	Serbian: životinja	Swedish: kräk; rå
Thai: สัตว์เดรัจฉาน	Turkish: hayvan; hayvanî	Taiwanese: 畜生
Ukrainian: тварина; жорстокий	Urdu: انسان کے علاوہ کوئی جانور	Vietnamese: súc vật
Chinese: 畜生
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