brute
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5.1
- noun
- /bruːt/
- Offensive
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bruto
- Your son will be a brute and a fool who will fire his best advisors.
- men as brutes
- a hypermasculine brute
If you win all these interchanges, you'll make them a heartless brute, just a punk.
- If you win all these interchanges, you'll make them a heartless brute, just a punk.
- The black brute seeks the innocent white woman.
- Ex boxer, awful man, absolute brute like this.
- It's a rejection of what separates us from the brutes.
- And she's beautiful in a sense because she is just a brute.
Examples
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I mean, after all it is in his nature to be, well, a bit of a brute.
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We are superior to the brutes in one way, but inferior in another.
Academic text (2001) -
I'll not have the brute free upon my ship.
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He was such a brute, that man.
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Unless I get free of that brute, I won't last much longer.
Fiction book (1995) -
In my town, when I was little, there was a brute, a bully who terrorized the place.
Fiction book (1996) -
That brute!
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I'm the one who's the ill-tempered brute, but he gets all the blame.
Fiction book (1993) -
Such a horrid, bloodthirsty din of hungry and angry brutes he had never heard in his life.
Academic text (2001) -
The bully was such a brute that no one dared to stand up to him.
Synonyms
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6.5
A person who is very cruel and shows no pity
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7.9
A very cruel and violent person who hurts others
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8.6
A person who acts violently and often starts fights
A person who behaves cruelly and violently and is said to be like an animal
A person who uses violence or threats to frighten others
Antonyms
How Cruel
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word brute comes from the old Latin word brutus, which meant 'heavy', 'dull', or 'stupid'. People began to use it for someone like an animal who shows no kindness, so a brute is a person or animal who is cruel, rough, or without feeling.