Brute vs Berserker - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between brute and berserker

is that brute is while berserker is one of a class of legendary norse warriors who fought frenzied and shirtless regardless of wounds.

brute

English

(wikipedia brute)

Adjective

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  • Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
    • a brute beast
  • Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
  • * Milton
    • A creature not prone / And brute as other creatures, but endued / With sanctity of reason.
  • Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
    • the brute''' earth; the '''brute powers of nature
  • Crude, unpolished.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • a great brute farmer from Liddesdale
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  • Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
    • I punched him with brute force.
  • Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
    • brute violence

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1714 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
    • they laid before them how unbecoming it was the Dignity of such sublime Creatures to be sollicitous about gratifying those Appetites, which they had in common with Brutes , and at the same time unmindful of those higher qualities that gave them the preeminence over all visible Beings.
  • * 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.
  • A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
    • 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."
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    • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
  • (archaic, slang, UK, Cambridge University) One who has not yet matriculated.

    • Derived terms

    * brutal * brutality * brute force * brutish

    Verb

    (brut)

    • Anagrams

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    berserker

    English

    (wikipedia berserker)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of a class of legendary Norse warriors who fought frenzied and shirtless regardless of wounds.
  • One who fights as if frenzied, like a berserker.