English Dictionary

brute

IPA（発音記号）

/bɹuːt/

名詞

古語 イギリス英語

(archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. / A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.

日本語の意味

（古語）理性を欠いた動物、すなわち人間の理性がないため本能的な猛獣として扱われる動物。 / 動物のような、本能的で無思慮な性格を持つ人物、すなわち粗野で残忍な人。

The villagers feared the lone brute that prowled the outskirts at night.

村人たちは夜に郊外をうろつく一匹の獣を恐れていた。

意味（1）

(archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.

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.

意味（2）

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

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.

意味（3）

(film, television) 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 […]

意味（4）

(archaic, UK, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.

brutes （ plural ）