BRUTE
/bɹuːt/
7
Scrabble
9
WWF
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Definition
/bɹuːt/
noun
- 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.“One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."”
- (Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
verb
- To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
adjective
- Without reason or intelligence (of animals).“a brute beast”
- Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
- Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.“the brute earth; the brute powers of nature”
- Crude, unpolished.
- Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.“I punched him with brute force.”
Source: Wiktionary
