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
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* 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
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fighter English
Noun
( en noun)
A person who fights, a combatant.
A warrior; fighting soldier.
A pugnacious, competitive person.
A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is that of shooting down other aircraft. Some of these (Fighter-Attack or Attack aircraft) also have a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
A boxer or participant in any martial art.
(colloquial) A firefighter
(video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.
* 2004 , Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks (page 59)
- Still, it's excellent software, especially for one-on-one fighting titles such as the King Of Fighters series, classic Street Fighter II variants, and newer one-on-one fighters such as Garou.
Derived terms
* cage fighter
* freedom fighter
* prizefighter
* (aircraft) fighter-bomber, fighter-interceptor, fighter plane, foo fighter, fighter jet, stealth fighter, strike fighter
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