Thesaurus: brute
Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
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Definitions
- 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.
- adj. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
- n. a cruelly rapacious person
- n. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement