/bɹuːt/, /bɹut/
OriginFrom 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).
- Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
- Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
“A creature […] not prone / And brute as other creatures, but endued / With sanctity of reason.”
- Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
“the brute earth; the brute powers of nature”
- Crude, unpolished.
“a great brute farmer from Liddesdale”
- Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature.
“I got the door open through brute force.”
“The two Gladiators, Kreugas and Damoxenos, a subject from Pausanias, is another work in the same grand style. There is a want of nobility both in the countenances and forms of the combatants, and the ”
“The rest of the massive figure gives one idea, strength in perfect repose ; the countenance, in its varied expression, is the soul of the whole. This is the more evident, because the expression in the”
- Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
- archaicAn animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
“they laid before them how unbecoming it was the Dignity of such sublime Creatures to be sollicitous about gratifying those Appetites, which they had in common with Brutes, and at the same time unmindf”
“‘That animal has a charmed life,’ he said; ‘but you can say this only of brutes in this country. No man - you apprehend me? - no man here bears a charmed life.’”
““I would then never have known what minute, or by whom, I was to be attacked next. But the brutes are more chivalrous than man—they do not stoop to cowardly intrigue.””
- A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted.
“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."”
“She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish”
- A kind of powerful spotlight.
“For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, ”
“At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, dischar”
- UK, archaicOne who has not yet matriculated.
- transitiveTo shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
Formsmore brute(comparative) · most brute(superlative) · brutes(plural) · brutes(present, singular, third-person) · bruting(participle, present) · bruted(participle, past) · bruted(past)
Source: Wiktionary