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English Synonyms and Antonyms
brute
An animal is a sentient being, distinct from inanimate matter and from vegetable life on the one side and from mental and spiritual existence on the other. Thus man is properly classified as an animal. But because the animal life is the lowest and rudest part of his being and that which he shares with inferior creatures, to call any individual man an animal is to imply that the animal nature has undue supremacy, and so is deep condemnation or utter insult. The brute is the animal viewed as dull to all finer feeling; the beast is looked upon as a being of appetites. To call a man a brute is to imply that he is unfeeling and cruel; to call him a beast is to indicate that he is vilely sensual. We speak of the cruel father as a brute to his children; of the drunkard as making a beast of himself. So firmly are these figurative senses established that we now incline to avoid applying brute or beast to any creature, as a horse or dog, for which we have any affection; we prefer in such cases the word animal. Creature is a word of wide signification, including all the things that God has created, whether inanimate objects, plants, animals, angels, or men. The animals of a region are collectively called its fauna.
Synonyms:
animal, beast, fauna, living creature, living organism, sentient beingAntonyms:
angel, inanimate object, man, matter, mind, mineral, soul, spirit, substance (material), vegetable
Princeton's WordNet
beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcatnoun
a cruelly rapacious person
Synonyms:
wildcat well, masher, skirt chaser, fauna, animal, animate being, beast, wildcat, woman chaser, wolf, barbarian, creature, savageAntonyms:
humaneanimal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, faunaadjective
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
Synonyms:
zoology, puppet, fauna, tool, animal, animate being, wight, wildcat, beast, wolf, creature, savageAntonyms:
humanebeastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutaladjective
resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
Antonyms:
humane
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
brutenoun
Synonyms:
BEAST, quadruped, four-footed animal, ferocious animalbrutenoun
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ruffian, barbarian, brutal monsterbruteadjective
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irrational, void of reasonbruteadjective
bruteadjective
Synonyms:
rough, rude, uncivilized
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1247 | tool | |
#1294 | animal | |
#3079 | raw | |
#4253 | gross | |
#4619 | beast | |
#5073 | wolf | |
#9271 | brutal | |
#9792 | savage | |
#9827 | creature | |
#9920 | crude | |
#15375 | puppet | |
#16135 | fauna | |
#16634 | wight | |
#19536 | zoology | |
#20516 | bully | |
#23477 | brute | |
#26177 | barbarian | |
#26826 | wildcat | |
#99257 | masher |
How to use brute in a sentence?
Passion is a rough diamond: reduced to be more beautiful. (C'est diamant brute la passion: - Diminuera pour être plus beau.)
Julius Caesar, from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars:
Et tu, Brute.[You also, Brutus.]
Et tu, Brute
This lengthy brute force campaign to collect and exfiltrate data, access credentials and more, is likely ongoing, on a global scale.
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
Translations for brute
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- غاشمArabic
- скот, звярBulgarian
- hovadoCzech
- brute, bæst, udyrDanish
- animalisch, roh, Rüpel, Barbar, brachial, Unmensch, blöd, tierisch, rau, Vieh, dumm, Tier, grobGerman
- κτηνάνθρωπος, αγριάνθρωπος, κτήνος, ζώο, θηρίοGreek
- brutoEsperanto
- bruto, bestiaSpanish
- بی رحمPersian
- elukka, eläin, jalostumaton, raakalainen, typerä, järjetön, karkea, raaka, eläimellinenFinnish
- bruteFrench
- brúid, brúidiúilIrish
- beathach, ainmhidh, brùidScottish Gaelic
- בהמהHebrew
- पHindi
- állatHungarian
- կենդանի, անասուն, գազանArmenian
- kasarIndonesian
- brutoIdo
- bruta, brutoItalian
- פְּרָאִיHebrew
- ブルートJapanese
- ವಿವೇಚನಾರಹಿತKannada
- 짐승Korean
- mutaLatin
- bruutDutch
- brute, bølleNorwegian
- brutal, bestia, bydlęPolish
- criatura, besta, brutoPortuguese
- brutăRomanian
- животное, бессмысленный, грубый, скотинаRussian
- brdavs, grobijanSlovene
- odjur, sälle, djuriskSwedish
- முரட்டுTamil
- బ్రూట్Telugu
- เดรัจฉานThai
- canavarTurkish
- скотинаUkrainian
- جانورUrdu
- bruteVietnamese
- ברוטYiddish
- 畜生Chinese
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