Word Meanings - BRUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature. 2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation. A creature .

Additional info about word: BRUTE

1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature. 2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation. A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason. Milton. 3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence. Macaulay. The influence of capital and mere brute labor. Playfair. 4. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. Sir W. Scott. 5. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRUTE)

• Creature
• Being
• animal
• thing
• body
• brute
• Insensate
• Brute
• insensitive
• insensible
• unfeeling
• stolid
• insusceptible
• unimpressible
• Monster
• Prodigy
• portent
• marvel
• deformity
• abnormity
• fright
• colossus
• monstrosity
• leviathan
• fiend

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