[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

   2. not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute
      beast; the brute creation.
      1913 webster

            a creature . . . not prone
            and brute as other creatures, but endued
            with sanctity of reason.              --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast.
      hence: brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless;
      as, brute violence. --macaulay.
      1913 webster

            the influence of capital and mere brute labor.
                                                  --playfair.
      1913 webster

   4. having the physical powers predominating over the mental;
      coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
      1913 webster

            a great brute farmer from liddesdale. --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

   5. rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. r.
      1913 webster

   brute force, the application of predominantly physical
      effort to achieve a goal that could be accomplished with
      less effort if more carefully considered. figuratively,
      repetitive or strenuous application of an obvious or
      simple tactic, as contrasted with a more clever stratagem
      achieving the same goal with less effort; -- as, the first
      prime numbers were discovered by the brute force
      repetition of the sieve of eratosthenes.
      pjc
see also:
brute force sieve of eratosthenes 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

brute \brute\, n.
   1. an animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human;
      esp. a quadruped; a beast.
      1913 webster

            brutes may be considered as either a"erial,
            terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious.  --locke.
      1913 webster

   2. a brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as
      unfeeling or coarse person.
      1913 webster

            an ill-natured brute of a husband.    --franklin.
      1913 webster

   syn: see beast.
        1913 webster
see also:
beast 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

brute \brute\, v. t. for bruit.
   to report; to bruit. obs.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

brute
     adj : resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
           "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force";
           "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of
           prisoners" syn: beastly, bestial, brutea, brutish
     n 1: a cruelly rapacious person syn: beast, wolf, savage,
          wildcat
     2: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement syn:
        animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna
see also:
beastly bestial brutea brutish beast wolf 
savage wildcat animal animate being creature 
fauna 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

165 moby thesaurus words for "brute":
   adamic, circean, draconian, goth, mafioso, neanderthal, tartarean,
   young turk, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic,
   anthropophagite, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbarian, barbaric,
   barbarous, beast, beastlike, beastly, beldam, berserk, berserker,
   bestial, blind, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bodily,
   bomber, brutal, brutalized, brutelike, brutish, cannibal,
   cannibalistic, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, creature,
   creeping thing, critter, cruel, cruel-hearted, demon, demoniac,
   demoniacal, destroyer, devil, devilish, diabolic, dragon, dull,
   dumb, dumb animal, dumb friend, earthy, fallen, fell, feral,
   ferine, ferocious, fiend, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fire-eater,
   firebrand, fleshly, fury, goon, gorilla, gross, gunsel, hardnose,
   hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hellish, holy terror,
   hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hyena, incendiary, infernal,
   inhuman, inhumane, insensate, instinctive, instinctual, irrational,
   killer, lapsed, living being, living thing, mad dog, madcap,
   man-eater, material, materialistic, mindless, monster, mugger,
   murderous, nihilist, nonrational, nonspiritual, orgiastic,
   physical, postlapsarian, rapist, revolutionary, ruthless, sadistic,
   sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, senseless, shark,
   sharkish, she-wolf, slavering, spitfire, subhuman, swinish,
   termagant, terror, terrorist, thoughtless, tiger, tigress, tough,
   tough guy, troglodyte, truculent, ugly customer, unchristian,
   uncivilized, unconscious, unfeeling, unhuman, unintelligent,
   unreasoning, unspiritual, unthinking, vandal, varmint, vicious,
   violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, wild man, witch, wolf, wolfish,
   wrecker, zoic, zooidal, zoologic

[6] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

brute, n.  see :husband:.


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