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Meaning of brute force

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

brute

Pronunciation:/bɹuːt//bɹut/

noun

Definitions

  1. An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.

  2. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.

    Example: 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. (Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.

verb

Definitions

  1. To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Without reason or intelligence (of animals).

    Example: a brute beast

  2. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).

  3. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.

    Example: the brute earth; the brute powers of nature

  4. Crude, unpolished.