brute

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /bɹuːt/    美 /bɹut/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. archaic
    — 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.
  2. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted.
    — 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."
  3. A kind of powerful spotlight.
    — For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]
  4. One who has not yet matriculated. UK,archaic
动词 v.
  1. To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other. transitive
  2. Obsolete spelling of bruit. alt-of,obsolete
形容词 adj.
  1. Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
    — a brute beast
  2. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
    — A creature […] not prone / And brute as other creatures, but endued / With sanctity of reason.
  3. Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
    — the brute earth; the brute powers of nature
  4. Crude, unpolished.
    — a great brute farmer from Liddesdale
  5. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature.
    — I got the door open through brute force.
  6. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
    — brute violence

词形变化

more brute comparative most brute superlative brutes plural brutes present,singular,third-person bruting participle,present bruted participle,past bruted past brutes present,singular,third-person bruting participle,present bruted participle,past bruted past

词汇关系

衍生词
brute fact brute strength brutal brutality brutedom brute force brute for punishment brutelike brutely bruteness bruter brutesome brutify brutish brutism brutist imbrute unbrute

词源

From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú) (English guru).
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