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in rut

ADJECTIVE

conventional

Synonyms

STRONGEST

rigid

WEAK

bigoted bourgeois button-down commonplace conforming conservative demure doctrinal dogmatic drippy hackneyed hidebound humdrum illiberal inflexible insular isolationist lame literal moderate moral narrow narrow-minded not extreme not heretical obstinate parochial pedestrian prosaic puritanical routine rube run-of-the-mill sober solemn square stereotyped straight strait-laced strict stuffy uptight

Antonyms

WEAK

abnormal different exotic foreign irregular new original strange uncommon unconventional uncustomary unique unusual

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“Don’t get too close. When goats are in rut they urinate all over themselves and you really don’t want to get that smell on you.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2018

The Zoo: Bronx Tales The zoo's huge male sea lion is in rut, and the staff needs to move the young males before he becomes territorial in this new episode, 8 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2018

When you are in rut like the Foxes are, with four straight league defeats, they might as well have a real go, even if they end up being beaten.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2015

Lake City is full of characters whose mythic size and legend loom bigger than antlers on a bull elk in rut.

From Time Magazine Archive

He approacheth me without any hesitation, even as an elephant in rut approacheth an assemblage of lotuses!'

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

in rut

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