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Definition: Brute |
BruteAdjective1. Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners". Noun1. A cruelly rapacious person. 2. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "brute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | BRUTE, n. See :HUSBAND:. C. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Brute in Cambridge University slang, is a man who has not yet matriculated. The play is evident. A "man," in college phrase, is a collegian; and, as matriculation is the sign and seal of acceptance, a scholar before that ceremony is not a "man," and therefore only a "biped brute." Brute (Sir John ). A coarse, pot-valiant knight, ignobly noted for his absurdities. (Vanbrugh: The Provoked Wife.) Brute or ~~~Brutus, Brutus, in the mythological history of England, the first king of the Britons, was son of Sylvius (grandson of Ascanius and great grandson of Æneas). Having inadvertently killed his father, he first took refuge in Greece and then in Britain. In remembrance of Troy, he called the capital of his kingdom Troy-novant (New Troy), now London. The pedigree was as follows:- (1) Æneas, (2) Ascanius, (3) Silvius, (4) Brutus. (See Troy-Novant.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: BruteSynonyms: beastly (adj), bestial (adj), brute(a) (adj), brutish (adj), animal (n), animate being (n), beast (n), creature (n), fauna (n), savage (n), wildcat (n), wolf (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence or want of Intellect | Noun: absence of intellect, want of intellect; imbecility; brutality, brute force. |
Instinct, brute instinct, stimulus-response loop, conditioned response, instinctive reaction, Pavlovian response. | |
Animal | Noun: animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation. |
Beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, dumb creature; zoophyte. | |
Compulsion | Force; brute force, main force, physical force; the sword, ultima ratio; club law, lynch law, mob law, arguementum baculinum, le droit du plus fort, martial law. |
Discourtesy | Bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub; frump, crosspatch; saucebox; crooked stick; grizzly. |
Evil doer | Savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian, caitiff, desperado; Apache, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly, pug-ugly, Red Skin, tough; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin, dangerous classes, ugly customer; thief. |
Illegality | Arbitrariness; Adjective: antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry. |
Ingratitude | Interjection: thank you for nothing! thanks for nothing! " et tu Brute! ". |
Inorganization | Noun: mineral world,mineral kingdom; unorganized matter, inorganic matter, brute matter, inanimate matter. |
MATERIALITY | Matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum; frame. |
Severity | Arbitrary power; absolutism, despotism; dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny, domineering, oppression; assumption, usurpation; inquisition, reign of terror, martial law; iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway; tight grasp; brute force, brute strength; coercion; strong hand, tight hand. |
Strength | Noun: strength; power; energy; vigor, force; main force, physical force, brute force; spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity. |
Teaching | Phonics; rote, rote memorization, brute memory; cooperative learning; Montessori method, ungraded classes. |
Violence | Severity; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation, malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia; force, brute force; outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog; spasm, convulsion, throe; hysterics, passion; (state of excitability). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Brute |
| English words defined with "brute": At the long run ♦ Beast royal, Brutify, Brutism ♦ Imbrute ♦ Oestrual ♦ Vives. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "brute": BFI, bogo-sort, British Library Method, brute force attack ♦ Caliban, Corineus ♦ Debon, Do-the-Boys' Hall ♦ eight queens puzzle ♦ Female ♦ Godmer, Goemot, Guendol"na ♦ Inogene ♦ LAOCOON, Loegria ♦ number-crunching ♦ prune and search ♦ Sabrina ♦ travelling salesman problem ♦ Woman. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "brute": Embrute. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Brute" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (beast, brute, bully boy, gorilla, Goring, ruffian). |
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Screenplays | Go away or I'll call the Brute Squad (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) That's the brute who raped my country, Thrace (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; writing credit: Burt Shevelove; Larry Gelbart) They were men of daring, of bold action and brute strength (Once Upon a Horse...; writing credit: Henry Gregor Felsen; Hal Kanter) The fact is, Morgan is an uncivilized brute. Sometimes he drinks heavily (The Old Dark House; writing credit: J.B. Priestley; Benn W. Levy) | |
Lyrics | Though he was a brute they just fell into his arms (Rasputin; performing artist: BONEY M) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Brute (1973) Brute Corps (1972) Love That Brute (1950) Brute Force (1947) The Brute Man (1946) | |
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 | Gertie]. Cried Gertie, drop that whip you brute! : and sky your mitts before I shoo. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A gentleman and a brute. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Holman to Dana: "Et tu, Brute" (And you, you brute). Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Lord Chesterfield | The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. |
Marcus T. Cicero | The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. |
Oscar Wilde | I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. |
Samuel Butler | Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed. |
St. Jerome | Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. |
Thomas Carlyle | Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. |
W. Winwood Reade | The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. |
Young | The man that blushes is not quite a brute. |
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John Locke | 1690 | This is a power, which neither nature gives, for it has made no such distinction between one man and another; nor compact can convey: for man not having such an arbitrary power over his own life, cannot give another man such a power over it; but it is the effect only of forfeiture, which the aggressor makes of his own life, when he puts himself into the state of war with another: for having quitted reason, which God hath given to be the rule betwixt man and man, and the common bond whereby human kind is united into one fellowship and society; and having renounced the way of peace which that teaches, and made use of the force of war, to compass his unjust ends upon another, where he has no right; and so revolting from his own kind to that of beasts, by making force, which is their's, to be his rule of right, he renders himself liable to be destroyed by the injured person, and the rest of mankind, that will join with him in the execution of justice, as any other wild beast, or noxious brute, with whom mankind can have neither society nor security. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When the intellect awoke and saw this act of the brute, Jean Valjean recoiled in anguish and uttered a cry of horror |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | A brute kills for pleasure |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | For they looked upon it as a prodigy that a brute animal should discover such marks of a rational creature |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | None of the brute creation requires more than Food and Shelter |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia. |
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| "Brute" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.04% of the time. "Brute" is used about 242 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.04% | 230 | 19,815 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.48% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.65% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.83% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 242 | N/A |
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Expressions using "brute": brute creation ♦ brute force ♦ brute force and ignorance ♦ brute force attack ♦ brute instinct ♦ brute matter ♦ brute of a job ♦ recette brute ♦ the brute creation. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "brute"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtazë (animal), kafshë (animal, beast, creature). (various references) | |
Arabic | وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, savage, truculent, unfeeling, vicious, wanton, wild), حيوان (animal, beast, ruffianly), غاشم (oppressive, tyrant, wanton), عجماء (animal, beast), صفات الإنسان البهومية, أعمى عن الحياة, شبيه بالبهيمة, بهيمي (animal, beastly, bestial, brutish), بهيمة (animal, beast). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | звяр (beast, prowler), животно (animal, beast). (various references) | |
Czech | bestie (animal, beast), zvíře (animal, beast), surovec (beast, ruffian), hovado, dobytek (animal, cattle). (various references) | |
Danish | bruttovægt (brute weight, gross weight), bruttogevinst (gross proceeds, gross profit, recette brute). (various references) | |
Dutch | ruw (abusive, coarse, crude, harsh, rough), bruut (harsh, head of cattle), beestachtig (beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish, harsh). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bruta (harsh), bestio (beast, wild animal). (various references) | |
Faeroese | villdjór (beast, wild animal). (various references) | |
Farsi | حیوان صفت (Brutal), حیوان (Animal, Beast), سبع (Atrocious, Ferocious, Fierce, Murderous, Savage, Truculent, Voracious, Wroth), جانورخوی (Bestial, Brutal), جانور (Animal, Beast, Creature), ادم بی شعوروکودن یاشهوانی , بی خرد, بی رحم (Brutal, Truculent). (various references) | |
Finnish | bruttomyyntituotto (gross proceeds, recette brute), väsytysmenetelmä (brute force algorithm, brute force method, brute force technique), kokonaispaino (brute weight, gross weight). (various references) | |
French | brute, brutal (brusque, brutal, brutish), bête, sauvage, de brute (brutish). (various references) | |
German | vieh (beast, cattle, cattles, head of cattle, livestock, swine), tier (animal, beast, bug, hound, pet, pig), brutaler kerl. (various references) | |
Greek | κτηνώδησ (beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish, ruffian), κτήνοσ (beast), κτήνος (animal, beast, monster), ζώο (animal, beast, creature, jackass). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פראי (bestial, brutal, feral, ferocious, fierce, savage, truculent, wild), חיתי (beastly, bestial, brutish), חי" (alive, animal, beast, lively), ב"מי (animal, beastly, brutish). (various references) | |
Hungarian | állat (animal, beast, creature). (various references) | |
Italian | bruto, brutale (bestial, brutal, brutish, tough), irragionevole (irrational, mindless, unreasonable, unreasoning), cane (cramp, dog, hammer, pooch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 畜" (beast, damn). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きちく, ひとでなし (miscreant, ungrateful fellow), けもの (beast), け もの (beast), ちくしょう (beast, damn, keeping a mistress). (various references) | |
Korean | 짐승 (Beast). (various references) | |
Manx | brout (beast, brutal person, ruffian), baagh oaldey (wild animal). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utebray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bruto (animal, beast, bestial, brutish, crude, gross, ill-mannered, raw, rawhide, rude). (various references) | |
Romanian | brutã (beast, savage, yahoo), başbuzuc (savage, turk), zgripţor (griffin, skinflint), zbir (strop, tyrant), viţã (blood, cow, name, race), neînsufleţit (inanimate, lifeless, spiritless), lighioanã (animal, beast), grobian (bear, boorish, brutal, coarse, uncivil, uncouth), dobitoc (addle-brain, animal, beast, blockhead), cãpcãun (moloch, monster, ogre), câine (beast, bow-bow, dog, doggie, hound, wow-wow), animalic (beastly, bestial, brutal, brutally, sensual), animal (animal, beast). (various references) | |
Russian | скотина (livestock), грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly), животное (animal, chase, scavenger). (various references) | |
Scottish | brùid (a brute), ainmhidh (animal, beast). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brutalan (brutal), zver (animal, beast), svirep (atrocious, brutal, cruel, farouche, ferocious, fierce, truculent), životinja (animal, beast). (various references) | |
Spanish | bruto (a b c, a.b.c., abc, beast, brutish, coarse, crude, currish, gross, raw, sod, stupid). (various references) | |
Swedish | djur (animal, animals, beast, cattle). (various references) | |
Thai | สัตว์ป่า, ลักษ"ะของสัตว์ป่า. (various references) | |
Turkish | yabani (bestial, brutal, brutish, fair, feral, haggard, savage, untamed, wild), vahşi hayvan, vahşi (atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, churlish, feral, ferocious, haggard, heathen, heathenish, rude, savage, tigerish, truculent, uncivilized, wild, wolfish), hayvani (bestial, brutish), hayvan (animal, beast), canavar (beast, chimera, monster, monstrosity, ogre). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хтивий (brutish, carnal, concupiscent, fulsome, goatish, lascivious, lewd, lickerish), тваринні інстинкти, тварина (animal, beast, creature), грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth), нерозумний (crack-brained, footling, ill-judged, impolitic, insensate, silly, unreasonable, wacky, witless), звірячий (atrocious, cannibalish, lupine), жорстока людина, жорстокий (atrocious, barbarous, bloody minded, brutal, brutish, cruel, cutthroat, despiteful, feral, ferocious, merciless, oppressive, outrageous, ruthless, stern, uncharitable), безглуздий (absurd, addle-brained, addle-pated, barmy, blind, brainless, crack-brained, crazy, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, impertinent, insane, ludicrous, meaningless, nail biting, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, senseless, wanton, wet), бездушний (callous, chill, hardened, hard-hearted, hollow-hearted, inanimate, ossified, soulless). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vũ phu hung ác (brutish), thú vật cục súc, súc vật (neck), nhục dục (carnality, concupiscence). (various references) | |
Welsh | ysgrublaidd (animal, brutish). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | animal, animalia, animalibus, animalis, animalium, brutus. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | brut. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Jude Chapter 1, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Outoi de osa men ouk oidasin blasfhmousin osa de fusikwV wV ta aloga zwa epistantai en toutoiV fqeirontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Hii autem quaecumque quidem ignorant blasphemant quaecumque autem naturaliter tamquam muta animalia norunt in his corrumpuntur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But these men blasfemen, what euer thingis thei knowen not. For what euer thingis thei knowen kyndli as doumbe beestis, in these thei ben corupt. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But these speake evyll of those thinges which they knowe not: and what thinges they knowe naturally as beastes which are without reason in tho thinges they corrupte them selves. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction. |
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| Language | Jude Chapter 1, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Apan kining mga tawhana nagapasipala sa bisan unsang butang nga dili nila masabut, ug sa mga butang nga ilang masabut pinaagi sa balatian nga dala sa kinaiya ingon sa mga mananap nga walay kabuot, pinaagi niining mga butanga sila nangalaglag. |
| Croatian | A ovi pogrðuju ono što ne poznaju; a što po naravi kao nerazumne životinje poznaju, u tom trunu. |
| Danish | Disse derimod bespotte, hvad de ikke kende; og hvad de som de ufornuftige Dyr vide Besked om af Naturen, dermed ødelægge de sig selv. |
| Dutch | Maar dezen, hetgeen zij niet weten, dat lasteren zij; en hetgeen zij natuurlijk, als de onredelijke dieren, weten, in hetzelve verderven zij zich. |
| Finnish | Nämä sitävastoin herjaavat sitä, mitä eivät tunne; mutta minkä he järjettömäin eläinten tavoin luonnostaan ymmärtävät, sillä he turmelevat itsensä. |
| French | Eux, au contraire, ils parlent d`une manière injurieuse de ce qu`ils ignorent, et ils se corrompent dans ce qu`ils savent naturellement comme les brutes. |
| German | Diese aber lästern alles, davon sie nichts wissen; was sie aber natürlich erkennen wie die unvernünftigen Tiere, darin verderben sie. |
| Haitian Creole | Yo menm, okontrè, yo pale mal sou sa yo pa konprann. Bagay yo konnen se bagay ensten yo moutre yo tankou bèt ki san konprann. Se bagay sa yo menm k'ap pèdi yo. |
| Hungarian | Ezek pedig azokat káromolják, a miket nem tudnak; a miket pedig természet szerint tudnak, mint az oktalan állatok, azok által megromolnak. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi dengan penghinaan-penghinaan, orang-orang itu menyerang segala sesuatu yang mereka tidak mengerti. Mereka sama seperti binatang-binatang yang tidak berakal, yang mengetahui hal-hal dengan nalurinya. Tetapi justru hal-hal itulah yang menyebabkan kehancuran mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Akan tetapi segala orang ini mengeji barang apa yang tiada diketahuinya, dan barang yang mereka itu mengerti dengan sebab keadaannya seperti makhluk yang tiada berakal, maka di dalam perkara itulah mereka itu binasa. |
| Maori | Ko enei ia, e korerotia kinotia ana e ratou nga mea kahore nei ratou i matau; na, ko nga mea e matauria noatia ake nei e ratou pera i nga kararehe whakaarokore, he iho ratou i aua mea. |
| Norwegian | Disse derimot spotter det de ikke kjenner; men det de av naturen skjønner, likesom de ufornuftige dyr, med det ødelegger de sig. |
| Portuguese | Estes, porém, blasfemam de tudo o que não entendem; e, naquilo que compreendem de modo natural, como os seres irracionais, mesmo nisso se corrompem. |
| Rumanian | Acewtia, dimpotrivq, batjocoresc ce nu cunosc, wi se pierd singuri kn ceeace wtiu din fire, ca dobitoacele fqrq minte. |
| Russian | б УЙЙ ЪМПУМПЧСФ ФП, ЮЕЗП ОЕ ЪОБАФ; ЮФП ЦЕ П ТЙТП"Е, ЛБЛ 'ЕУУМПЧЕУОЩЕ ЦЙЧПФОЩЕ, ЪОБАФ, ФЕН ТБУФМЕЧБАФ УЕ'С. |
| Shuar | Túrasha ju shuarka nékainiatsna nuna Nánkamsar yajauch chicharainiawai. Tura nékainiana nuka Yawá ainis Enentáimtsuk áyatik nékainiawai. Tura Nújaisha imia ninki yajauch emesmamainiawai. |
| Spanish | Pero éstos maldicen lo que no conocen; y en lo que por instinto comprenden, se corrompen como animales irracionales. |
| Swahili | Lakini watu hawa hutukana chochote wasichokielewa; mambo yaleyale wanayoyajua kwa silika kama vile wanyama wanayoyajua ndiyo yanayowaangamiza. |
| Uma | Hiaa' guru to boa' toera-rana, mporuge' -ra anu mobaraka' to uma ra'incai. To ra'inca-na, kabua' -bua' kehi-ra to hewa binata to uma ria pekiri-ra. Pai' ngkai kehi-ra toe-mi mpai', pai' alaa-na mporata huku' -ra. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "brute": bruted, brutely, brutes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "brute": embrute, imbrute. (additional references) | |
Words containing "brute": embruted, embrutes, imbruted, imbrutes. (additional references) | |
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"Brute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arute, Berutti, beute, Birute, Bluto, Borut, Bouet, boute, brata, brate, brati, braut, breta, breue, briate, brita, briten, briti, broted, broter, Broto, Bruche, brude, brue, bruel, brufen, bruiter, brune, brupt, bruse, Brushe, bruta, brutap, bruted, bruti, brutle, bruto, brutt, brutta, brutto, buret, burue, burutu, bute, butke, buute, byrate, byrite, Druten, frute, grutte. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "brute" (pronounced bruw"t) |
| 4 | b r uw" t | Brut. |
| 3 | -r uw" t | fruit, recruit, reroute, root, uproot. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: buret, rebut, tuber. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: brut, bute, rube, true, tube. | |
-2 letters: bet, bur, but, reb, ret, rub, rue, rut, tub, urb. | |
-3 letters: be, er, et, re, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: arbute, brunet, bruted, brutes, bunter, burets, burnet, buster, butler, butter, rebuts, tubber, tubers. | |
+2 letters: abutter, arbutes, becrust, becurst, blunter, blurted, blurter, bluster, briquet, bruited, bruiter, brunets, brutely, bunters, burette, burkite, burnets, bursate, bursted, burster, burthen, busters, bustier, butcher, butlers, butlery, butters, buttery, doubter, embrute, imbrute, obtrude, obtuser, outbred, perturb, puberty, rebuilt, redoubt, rubiest, subrent, subtler, subvert, terbium, tribune, tribute, trouble, tubbers, tubbier, tumbler, tumbrel, turbeth, turbine. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Bible Trace | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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