brute
Meanings
Plural: brutes
Noun
- a cruelly rapacious person
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
- A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted.
- A kind of powerful spotlight.
- One who has not yet matriculated.
Adjective Satellite
- resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
- "brute force"
Adj
- Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
- Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
- Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
- Crude, unpolished.
- Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
- Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
Verb
- To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
- Obsolete spelling of bruit.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú) (English guru).
Synonyms
animal, animate being, beast, beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish, creature, fauna, savage, wildcat, wolf
Scrabble Score: 7
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