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brutely

brutely adverb: in a rude or violent manner.

Adverb

brutely (comparative more brutely, superlative most brutely)

  1. In a rude or violent manner.
    • McDowell's paradigm for such a coercive relationship of world to mind is any account in which the world's impact upon us is brutely causal and that brute causal relationship is taken to have epistemic significance.2002, William P. Alston, Realism and antirealism
    Synonyms:
    brutishly

Synonyms of brutely

Forms of brutely

comparativemore brutely
superlativemost brutely

Origin of brutely

From brute + -ly.

Questions about brutely

What does brutely mean?
Brutely means in a rude or violent manner.
What part of speech is brutely?
Brutely is an adverb.

Words near brutely in the dictionary

  1. bruted
  2. brutedom
  3. bruteforcer
  4. bruteforcers
  5. brutelike
  6. brutely
  7. bruteman
  8. brutemen
  9. bruteness
  10. bruter
  11. bruters

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