Tough vs Brute - What's the difference?
tough | brute |
Strong and resilient; sturdy.
(of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
Rugged or physically hardy.
Stubborn.
(of weather etc) Harsh or severe.
Rowdy or rough.
Difficult or demanding.
(material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
(slang) (Used to indicate lack of sympathy)
A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
* Milton
Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
Crude, unpolished.
* Sir Walter Scott
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Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
* 1714 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.17:
A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
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(archaic, slang, UK, Cambridge University) One who has not yet matriculated.
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
(er)- The tent, made of tough canvas, held up to many abuses.
- To soften a tough cut of meat, the recipe suggested simmering it for hours.
- Only a tough species will survive in the desert.
- He had a reputation as a tough negotiator.
- A bunch of the tough boys from the wrong side of the tracks threatened him.
- This is a tough crowd.
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 *Interjection
(en interjection)- If you don't like it, tough !
Noun
(en noun)- They were doing fine until they encountered a bunch of toughs from the opposition.
Derived terms
* tough it out * tough outAnagrams
* ----brute
English
(wikipedia brute)Adjective
(more)- a brute beast
- A creature not prone / And brute as other creatures, but endued / With sanctity of reason.
- the brute''' earth; the '''brute powers of nature
- a great brute farmer from Liddesdale
- I punched him with brute force.
- brute violence
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
