brute

[Brute]

His road rage may turn your dad into a brute when he gets behind the wheel. A brute is a person who is as ferocious as a wild animal.

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Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

Noun
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Noun
a cruelly rapacious person

a.
Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

a.
Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.

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

a.
Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.

a.
Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.

n.
An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.

n.
A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.

v. t.
To report; to bruit.

Brute

Brute , a. [F. brut, nasc., brute, fem., raw, rough, rude, brutish, L. brutus stupid, irrational: cf. It. & Sp. bruto.] 1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature. 2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.

A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason.

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

The influence of capital and mere brute labor.

4. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.

A great brute farmer from Liddesdale.

5. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. [R.]

Brute

Brute, n. 1. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.

Brutes may be considered as either a'89ral, terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious.

2. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.

An ill-natured brute of a husband.

Syn. -- See Beast.

Brute

Brute, v. t. [For bruit.] To report; to bruit. [Obs.]

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.

To report; to bruit.

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Usage Examples

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

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Other Usage Examples

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.