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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
brute/bruːt/
▶noun
- 1 a violent or savage person or animal.
■ informal a cruel or insensitive person.
- 2 an animal as opposed to a human being.
- 1 unreasoning and animal-like.
- 2 merely physical: brute force.
- 3 harsh or inescapable: brute necessity.
– derivatives
brutish adjective,
brutishly adverb,
brutishness noun.
brutish adjective,
brutishly adverb,
brutishness noun.
– origin ME (as adj.): from OFr. brut(e), from L. brutus ‘dull, stupid’.
'brute' also found in these Oxford entries:
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A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale
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Hyphenations: "brute[-]force"? "less[-]drastic reduction"?
brute creation
Brute/brutal
Hyphenations: "brute[-]force"? "less[-]drastic reduction"?
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