brute
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- 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; being purely physical in nature.
- Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
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, particularly one who is dim-witted.
- A kind of powerful spotlight.
- One who has not yet matriculated.
Verb
- To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
- Obsolete spelling of bruit.
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