Brute

a.	1.	Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
	2.	Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation. A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason. - Milton.
	3.	Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence. The influence of capital and mere brute labor. - Playfair.
	4.	Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. - Sir W. Scott.
	5.	Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
The application of predominantly physical effort to achieve a goal that could be accomplished with less effort if more carefully considered. Figuratively, repetitive or strenuous application of an obvious or simple tactic, as contrasted with a more clever stratagem achieving the same goal with less effort; - as, the first prime numbers were discovered by the brute force repetition of the Sieve of Eratosthenes.

n.1.An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.2.A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.v. t.1.To report; to bruit.

Noun	1.	brute - a cruelly rapacious person Synonyms: beast, savage, wildcat, wolf
	2.	brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna
Adj.	1.	brute - resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" Synonyms: bestial, brutish, beastly

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