Helen Fenton

Brutality: Definition and part of speech

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Brutality

  1. n. An inhuman act.
  2. n. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Brutalize: Definition and part of speech

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Brutalize

  1. v. i. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.
  2. v. t. To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Brute: Definition and part of speech

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Brute

  1. v. t. To report; to bruit.
  2. a. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
  3. a. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
  4. a. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
  5. a. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
  6. a. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
  7. n. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
  8. n. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.