Definitions for brute

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brute brute

Spelling: [broot]

IPA: /brut/

Brute is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in brute (bertu).

Definitions for brute

noun

1. a nonhuman creature; beast.
2. a brutal, insensitive, or crude person.
3. the animal qualities, desires, etc., of humankind:

adjective

1. animal; not human.
2. not characterized by intelligence or reason; irrational.
3. characteristic of animals; of brutal character or quality.
4. savage; cruel:
5. carnal; sensual.

verb (used with object)

1. to shape (a diamond) by rubbing with another diamond or a diamond chip.

Origin of brute

1375-1425; late Middle English Middle French Latin brūtus heavy, devoid of feeling, irrational

Examples for brute

I believe every man's a brute when the woman he loves defies him.

To the Americans, however, the invasion was “not to ratify a victory already won; it was to seize that victory by brute force.”

From brute beasts you have restored us to the condition of men again.

But hunting does not make one wholly a brute, crying, 'Kill, kill!'

The very drunk have the intuition sometimes of savages or brute beasts.

“It was no brute whom Smiley was pursuing with such mastery, no unqualified fanatic after all, no automaton,” le Carré writes.

“The Bulgarian brute,” the excitable announcers called Rusev.

They knew that as much as they tried to make up for it with brute force, their cultural power was nil.

That brute of a Bouquet came spying about my castle, and I did but defend myself.

brute is the story of Mac and Jesse, two disenfranchised teens who turn to robbing houses as a form of recreation and quick cash.