brute
brute is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
- adjective. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
- adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
- adjective. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
- adjective. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
- noun. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
- noun. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
- transitive verb. To report; to bruit.
- noun. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- noun. a cruelly rapacious person
- adjective. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
"beastly desires"
"a bestial nature"
Synonyms
animal, beast, creature, fauna, savage, wildcat, wolf, beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in brute:
Common word forms
bruted, bruter, brutes, brutely, brutest, bruting, bruteness
Words from these letters
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