(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck?
(2) The "might is right" alternative – the playground resort to "brute force" recalling Europe's past "descent into barbarism" – was no alternative at all.
(3) Spence advocates the gathering of brute data while denying or downplaying the epistemological value of theorizing and of interpretive understandings.
(4) Suddenly, we were back in the age of ropes and pulleys and brute strength to deliver her into the hands of the mechanised world.
(5) Putin is a cunning negotiator with the skills of a KGB colonel, varying between brute force, charm and obfuscation.
(6) It adds a savage realism that even Caravaggio never thought of – it would take two women to kill this brute.
(7) To gain access to users' passwords, Gnosis used what is known as a brute force attack.
(8) Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.
(9) (Can you make it overpaid Yentob's last interview too, ask online brutes.)
(10) While Guzmán nurtured his terrain and loyalty like a feudal lord beloved by his people, Los Zetas rule by brute, brazen terror.
(11) It needed stamina, ice-in-the-veins bravery, cunning, cool judgment and brute determination.
(12) With 64 bits, the address space is so vast that it's not practical to use brute-force scanning.
(13) Intelligence rather than brute force will win the day in this beautifully executed episode.
(14) Finding the gene for myotonic muscular dystrophy is requiring the brute force approach of cloning several million bases of DNA, identifying expressed sequences, and characterizing candidate genes.
(15) The brute luck of birth thus becomes essential to future housing wealth.
(16) If such state-sponsored farce in one of southeast Asia’s most modern capitals suggests there is panic beneath the junta’s brute power, its desperate need for its actions to be seen in a positive light confirms it.
(17) Sell Churchill to the survivors of Gallipoli, if you can, and Adam Smith to those who have suffered the brute end of privatisation.
(18) The film takes a bleak view of US expansionism, depicting some pioneers as cheats, brutes and bandits, I say.
(19) 23, 544-548] or a brute-force search when only a small part of the molecule was used as a model.
(20) Photograph: Alamy The brute force and cunning that elevated our royal family above its competitors is now lost in the mists of time.
Brutish
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
Example Sentences:
(1) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(2) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.
(3) "There has been a collision of a large amount of immigration from eastern Europe and a UK labour market that is frankly too often nasty, brutish and short-term," he said.
(4) Yet it still felt vaguely surprising when Yaya Touré shrugged himself from his own fitful display – occasionally at his brutish best, just as often rather sluggish, and nothing like the player who rampaged in this arena as City all but claimed the title last April – to fizz in a riposte 12 minutes from time, but there was to be no relief at the end.
(5) It also shocked by laying bare Johnson's brutish, bullying, coarse ways.
(6) To go back to Miliband, all that points to work that is indeed "nasty, brutish and short term" – but both main parties seem happy to underwrite it.
(7) The brutish Polish husband of A Streetcar Named Desire was much less given to windy rhetoric, or at least he remained inarticulate.
(8) If they do not change their business model, what remains of their existence will be nasty, brutish and short.” The call for a shakeup comes less than 24 hours after another thinktank, the Carbon Tracker Initiative, also called on oil companies to slim down and base their business models around global warming targets .
(9) The underbelly of the global economy has become a dark, brutish realm in which under-regulated labour markets provide minimised production costs for dozens of commodities exported around the world.
(10) Good government shouldn’t have to resort to brutish, bully-boy tactics like this.” After the government released the Forgotten Children report on Wednesday night – having received it in November – Tony Abbott described it as a “transparent stitch-up” and a “blatantly partisan exercise”.
(11) With his physicality, rugged looks and gallery of piercing stares, he excels as tough, brutish characters with an underlying vulnerability.
(12) The new Queensland senator Matthew Canavan used his maiden speech to say: “I want to put on the record my admiration and support for our fossil fuel industry and the thousands of jobs it supports … Fossil fuels have made more contribution than almost any other product or invention towards humanity's long ascent from lives that were nasty, brutish and short to ones of comparative luxury and leisure.
(13) Opponents of the tax rightly attack the brutishness of the catch-all – hitting foster parents, the disabled, the modern family with all its patchwork ways.
(14) But even as Johnson receded into history, Caro's unflagging enthusiasm for his subject was fed by a craving to understand how this brutish, bullying, often racist man struggled out of the grip of rural Texas.
(15) These workers are more willing to fill jobs that are temporary, low-paid, with bad conditions, and no training or career progression – "nasty, brutish, and short term", as Miliband summed them up today.
(16) A standard-bearer for courage in the face of brutish (male) authority.
(17) Charting events including the war on terror and the Hutton enquiry, the 800-page tome was described in the Guardian as "nasty, brutish and long ... the edited outpouring of an obsessive" .
(18) The Goya-like record of the atrocities that have marked the Syrian conflict from the beginning is long and brutish.
(19) It's a huge role for Clarke, his biggest to date, and his performance – one moment heartily brutish, the next bluff and likable – is an excellent foil to Jessica Chastain's taut anxiety.
(20) Their boss, Brendan Barber, gleefully hailed "a darker, more brutish, more frightening" Britain ahead.