Antonyms for brute
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1. 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.

   Antonyms:
   angel, inanimate object, man, matter, mind, mineral, soul, spirit, substance (material), vegetable

   Synonyms:
   animal, beast, fauna, living creature, living organism, sentient being

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1. beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcatnoun

   a cruelly rapacious person

   Antonyms:
   humane

   Synonyms:
   wildcat well, masher, skirt chaser, fauna, animal, animate being, beast, wildcat, woman chaser, wolf, barbarian, creature, savage

2. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, faunaadjective

   a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

   Antonyms:
   humane

   Synonyms:
   zoology, puppet, fauna, tool, animal, animate being, wight, wildcat, beast, wolf, creature, savage

3. beastly, 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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1. bruteadjective

   Synonyms:
   irrational

2. brutenoun

   Synonyms:
   beast, fiend, monster, ruffian, yahoo

How to use brute in a sentence?

1. Yanez Jr.:

   She’s tied the hands of the police, she wants police to fight crime with a hand tied behind their backs, and you can’t fight evil crime, brute force, with one hand tied behind their backs.

2. Charles de LEUSSE:

   Passion is a rough diamond: reduced to be more beautiful. (C'est diamant brute la passion: - Diminuera pour être plus beau.)

3. Elliot Rodger:

   the brute will then invite the girl back to his place of dwelling, where he will achieve insertion. He will experience delights so heavenly, so incredible... delights, that have been so cruelly denied to me

4. Kishore Singh:

   The Chinese are using their brute force amid a pandemic, the world must stand with India to punish them.

5. William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1:

   Et tu, Brute!

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