brute /ˈbrut/
畜生,殘忍或好色之人(a.)殘忍的,無理性的,畜生的
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Brute a.
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.
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. [R.]
Brute, n.
1. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
Brutes may be considered as either aërial, terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious. --Locke.
2. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
An ill-natured brute of a husband. --Franklin.
Syn: -- See Beast.
Brute, v. t. To report; to bruit. [Obs.]
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brute
adj : resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force";
"a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of
prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish]
n 1: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage,
wildcat]
2: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn:
animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna]