What's the difference between brute and senseless?

Brute


Definition:

  • (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.

Senseless


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But there is absolutely no justification for this type of senseless violence."
  • (2) But they need to do all they can to prevent the senseless violence and killing."
  • (3) Nobody can offer, let alone embrace, any rationale for the Newtown assault: it was random, indiscriminate, senseless and deliberate slaughter of innocents.
  • (4) The infant's rights to life without constant pain are also violated by the senseless prolongation of his life and the promotion of wrongful life through the excessive use of modern technology.
  • (5) The promoters added: “We ask at this time that we all continue to support the city of Manchester and all those families affected by this cowardice and senseless violence.
  • (6) "It represents senseless acts of violence against trans and queer bodies beyond the historical lens," says Cassils.
  • (7) Security around the airport was tightened and an investigation into the "terrible, senseless crime" was under way, said Boris Rhein, interior minister for the state of Hesse.
  • (8) Occurring in approximately 2% of adults, OCD consists of recurrent intrusive thoughts (obsessions) or senseless repetitive actions (compulsions).
  • (9) The victims are frequently unidentified and the motive unclear, but the senselessness was all too evident.
  • (10) The frequency of senseless gun-related deaths in America continues unabated.
  • (11) Wenger talked about his side committing "easy mistakes" and he might easily have been referring to Özil's carelessness before the goal that made it 3-1, playing a senseless pass to Mathieu Flamini, then watching Fernandinho steal in to bend a wonderful shot beyond Wojciech Szczesny.
  • (12) On Twitter , Wade lamented what he called another “act of senseless gun violence” which meant “4 kids lost their mom for NO REASON”.
  • (13) The Department for Education has appointed one of its "brokers" to find the school a sponsor, and a local action group is fighting against a plan that scores of local people think is senseless.
  • (14) These senseless murders may amount to war crimes and the perpetrators must be held accountable,” Nicholas Haysom, the UN’s special representative for Afghanistan , said in a statement on Wednesday.
  • (15) The defense secretary, Ash Carter, said in a statement: “My thoughts and prayers – along with those of the men and women of the US Department of Defense – are with the families of those killed in this senseless act of violence and with all those touched by this tragedy.” The Associated Press contributed to this report • This article was amended on 17 July 2015 to correct the spelling of Hixson, Tennessee.
  • (16) If national politics has been breaking your heart or boring you senseless I suggest you talk yourself out of your alienation and tune in for the next couple of weeks, because stuff – it’s going to get interesting.
  • (17) Most Midwestern areas have small cities and towns, and most of our trauma results from accidents, not deliberate, senseless human acts.
  • (18) The Spanish full-back is prone to rashness but the two-footed lunge from behind on Naismith was senseless even by his standards.
  • (19) The brief flurry of liberal street protest in 2011 and 2012 was ruthlessly snuffed out by the Kremlin, and many have suggested that, far from a liberal revolution, the most likely revolt in Russia is the “senseless and merciless” Russian uprising of which Alexander Pushkin wrote.
  • (20) An attempt was made to enhance (by means of instruction) the verbal labeling and recall of schematic pictures which uninformed Ss tended to perceive as senseless.