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English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  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.

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

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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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, savage

    Antonyms:
    humane

  2. animal, 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, savage

    Antonyms:
    humane

  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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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. brutenoun

    Synonyms:
    BEAST, quadruped, four-footed animal, ferocious animal

  2. brutenoun

    Synonyms:
    ruffian, barbarian, brutal monster

  3. bruteadjective

    Synonyms:
    irrational, void of reason

  4. bruteadjective

    Synonyms:
    bestial, savage, barbarous, BRUTAL

  5. bruteadjective

    Synonyms:
    rough, rude, uncivilized

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.0 / 1 vote

  1. bruteadjective

    Synonyms:
    irrational

  2. brutenoun

    Synonyms:
    beast, fiend, monster, ruffian, yahoo

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "brute":

    gross, brutal, raw, crude, bully

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How to use brute in a sentence?

  1. Eduardo Enriquez:

    The longer we don't see results, people are going to start getting tired and disappointed, and they have the force, the brute force. So we don't want to lose the momentum.

  2. Dermot Shea:

    We can do it with brains, we can do it with guile, we can move away from brute force.

  3. Kishore Singh:

    This kind of bludgeoning must stop. China has a strong army but Indians will unite against them if they continue such attacks, the Chinese are using their brute force amid a pandemic, the world must stand with India to punish them.

  4. 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.

  5. Charles de LEUSSE:

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


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