brute
IPA: brˈut
noun
- (archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
- A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
- (film, television) A kind of powerful spotlight.
- (archaic, UK, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
verb
- (transitive) To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
- Obsolete spelling of bruit [(transitive, archaic in Britain, current in the US) To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc.]
adjective
- Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
- Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
- Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
- Crude, unpolished.
- Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
- Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
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