Definizione monolingua

brute

brute (third-person singular simple present brutes, present participle bruting, simple past and past participle bruted)

1. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

brute (plural brutes)

1. An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. [from 17th c.]
   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.17:

     But if he lives badly, he will, in the next life, be a woman; if he (or she) persists in evil-doing, he (or she) will become a brute, and go on through transmigrations until at last reason conquers.

2. Someone with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. [from 17th c.]

   One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed ""I just got out of jail.""

brute (comparative more brute, superlative most brute)

1. Without reason or intelligence (of animals). [from 15th c.]
2. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans). [from 16th c.]
3. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. [from 16th c.]
4. Crude, unpolished. [from 17th c.]
   • 2006, Howard Richards; Joanna Swanger, The Dilemmas of Social Democracies: Overcoming Obstacles to a More Just World, page 45:

     The related notion that some facts are relatively more brute than others hearkens back to the ancient metaphysics of Aristotle.

Definizione dizionario brute

	bruto
	an animal destitute of human reason
	a brutal person

bestia

bruta

brutale

Altri significati:

A large, savage looking man.

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

(comparable) Harsh; blunt

Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.

A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.

An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; especially a quadruped; a beast.

Obsolete spelling of bruit.

Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.

Purely physical.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.

Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.