ALL meanings of brute
brute
B b - countable noun brute If you call someone, usually a man, a brute, you mean that they are rough, violent, and insensitive. 3
- adjective brute When you refer to brute strength or force, you are contrasting it with gentler methods or qualities. 3
- adjective brute Brute emotions or facts are basic feelings or responses to a situation, or the basic facts of this situation. 3
- noun brute any animal except man; beast; lower animal 3
- noun brute (as modifier) 3
- noun brute a brutal person 3
- adjective brute wholly instinctive or physical (esp in the phrases brute strength, brute force) 3
- adjective brute without reason or intelligence 3
- adjective brute coarse and grossly sensual 3
- adjective brute lacking the ability to reason 3
- adjective brute having no consciousness or feelings; insensate 3
- adjective brute of or like an animal; specif., brutal, cruel, gross, sensual, stupid, etc. 3
- noun brute an animal 3
- noun brute a person who is brutal or very stupid, gross, sensual, etc. 3
- noun brute a nonhuman creature; beast. 1
- noun brute a brutal, insensitive, or crude person. 1
- noun brute the animal qualities, desires, etc., of humankind: Father felt that rough games brought out the brute in us. 1
- adjective brute animal; not human. 1
- adjective brute not characterized by intelligence or reason; irrational. 1
- adjective brute characteristic of animals; of brutal character or quality. 1
- adjective brute savage; cruel: brute force. 1
- adjective brute carnal; sensual. 1
- verb with object brute to shape (a diamond) by rubbing with another diamond or a diamond chip. 1
- adjective brute animalistic, bestial 1
- adjective brute harsh, severe, unpleasant 1
- noun brute aggressive or violent man 1
- noun brute coarse man 1
- noun brute (archaic, slang, Britain, Cambridge University) One who has not yet matriculated. 0
- verb brute Obsolete spelling of bruit. 0
- adjective brute Without reason or intelligence (of animals). 0
- adjective brute Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans). 0
- adjective brute Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. 0
- adjective brute Crude, unpolished. 0
- adjective brute Strong, blunt, and spontaneous. 0
- adjective brute Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless. 0
- noun brute (now archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. 0
- noun brute A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. 0