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What is another word for brute?

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Adjective

Pertaining to, or having the form, nature or habits of, a beast or animal

Pertaining to the physical or corporeal body, especially on a primal level

Having a tendency to inflict suffering and pain on others

To an absolute degree

An unkind, evil or unscrupulous person

An animal as opposed to a human being

A rough and generally bad-mannered person

A strange, horrible, and often frightening being

A thing that is extremely or unusually large

An organism which eats others of its own species, especially a human who eats human flesh

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Pertaining to, or having the form, nature or habits of, a beast or animal

“Neanderthals are described as being capable of far more than mere brute, animalistic behavior.”

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Pertaining to the physical or corporeal body, especially on a primal level

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“The younger lumberjack quickly went to task chopping down trees, using his brute strength to forge his way to anticipated victory.”

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Having a tendency to inflict suffering and pain on others

red in tooth and claw

abandoned

demoralized^US

demoralised^UK

maleficent

with a heart of stone

uncivilized^US

uncivilised^UK

ill-humored^US

sombre^UK

somber^US

terrorizing^US

accidentally on purpose

terrorising^UK

off-colour^UK

off-color^US

having a killer instinct

at each other's throats

humourless^UK

humorless^US

gray^US

grey^UK

unfavorable^US

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

sulphurous^UK

sulfurous^US

rubbing the wrong way

speaking as one finds

plain-spoken

calling a spade a spade

knock-down-and-drag-out

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“The state's use of brute force in dealing with opponents has created an environment where violence has become the norm.”

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To an absolute degree

Noun

An unkind, evil or unscrupulous person

jailbird^US

gaolbird^UK

phoney^UK

phony^US

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“Everything showed us that this brute of a tyrant and tyrant of brutes wishes to keep his savage empire in a state of closeness and insularity.”

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An animal as opposed to a human being

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“What I remember is that the film starred Will Fyffe, whose big black dog was rather an unreliable brute that was suspected of sheep worrying.”

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A rough and generally bad-mannered person

unsophisticated person

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A strange, horrible, and often frightening being

specter^US

spectre^UK

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A thing that is extremely or unusually large

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An organism which eats others of its own species, especially a human who eats human flesh

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