brute
adjective/bruːt/
/bruːt/
[only before noun]- involving physical strength only and not thought or intelligence
- brute force/strength
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- basic and unpleasant
- the brute facts of inequality
- Their desire for independence has to do with brute economics.
- unable to think or reason, like an animal
- brute beasts/animals
Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French brut(e), from Latin brutus ‘dull, stupid’.
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