Tough vs Brute - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between tough and brute is that tough is a person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully while brute is . As an adjective tough is strong and resilient; sturdy. As an interjection tough is (slang) ( used to indicate lack of sympathy). As a verb tough is to endure.
tough English
Adjective
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Strong and resilient; sturdy.
- The tent, made of tough canvas, held up to many abuses.
(of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
- To soften a tough cut of meat, the recipe suggested simmering it for hours.
Rugged or physically hardy.
- Only a tough species will survive in the desert.
Stubborn.
- He had a reputation as a tough negotiator.
(of weather etc) Harsh or severe.
Rowdy or rough.
- A bunch of the tough boys from the wrong side of the tracks threatened him.
Difficult or demanding.
- This is a tough crowd.
(material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
Derived terms
* do it tough
* hang tough
* supertough
* tough call
* tough case
* tough cookie
* tough crowd
* tough love
* tough luck
* tough-minded
* tough nut to crack
* tough row to hoe
* tough shit
* tough titty
* tough toodles
* tough tuchus
* toughen
* toughie
* toughish
* toughly
* toughness
* toughy
* ultratough
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Interjection
( en interjection)
(slang) (Used to indicate lack of sympathy)
- If you don't like it, tough !
Noun
( en noun)
A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
- They were doing fine until they encountered a bunch of toughs from the opposition.
Verb
( en verb)
To endure.
To toughen.
Derived terms
* tough it out
* tough out
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brute Adjective
( more)
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)
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