noun. An animal other than a human; a beast.

noun. A brutal, crude, or insensitive person.

adjective. Of or relating to animals other than humans.

adjective. Characteristic of a brute, especially.

adjective. Entirely physical.

adjective. Lacking or showing a lack of reason or intelligence.

adjective. Savage; cruel.

adjective. Unremittingly severe.

adjective. Coarse; brutish.

noun. Nautical, a yacht that to some extent sacrifices fineness of lines to fullness of form, so that great initial stability and sail-carrying power are obtained.

Senseless; unconscious.

Wanting reason; animal; not human: as, a brute beast.

Characteristic of animals; of brutal character or quality.

Blunt or dull of sentiment; without sensibility; rough; uncivilized; insensible.

Not associated with intelligence or intellectual effort; unintelligent; irrational.

Harsh; crude.

Synonyms Brute, Brutish, Brutal, Beastly, Bestial. Brute is the most general of these words, and remains nearest to the distinguishing difference between man and beast, irrationality: as, brute force. Brutish is especially uncultured, stupid, groveling: as, brutes and still more brutish men. Brutal implies cruelty or lack of feeling: as, brutal language or conduct. Beastly expresses that which is altogether unworthy of a man, especially that which is filthy and disgusting in conduct or manner of life. Bestial is applied chiefly to that which is carnal, sensual, lascivious: as, bestial vices or appetites.

noun. A beast, especially one of the higher quadrupeds; any animal as distinguished from man.

noun. A brutal person; a savage in disposition or manners; a low-bred, unfeeling person.

transitive verb. To report; to bruit.

noun. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.

noun. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.

adjective. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition.

adjective. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking.

adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.

adjective. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.

adjective. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.

adjective. The application of predominantly physical effort to achieve a goal that could be accomplished with less effort if more carefully considered. Figuratively, repetitive or strenuous application of an obvious or simple tactic, as contrasted with a more clever stratagem achieving the same goal with less effort; -- .

adjective. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous

noun. One who has not yet matriculated.

verb. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

noun. a cruelly rapacious person

adjective. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

noun. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

"At certain intervals his mania came upon him, the strange hallucination of something four-footed, the persistent fancy that the brute in him had now grown so large, so insatiable, that it had taken everything, even to his very self, his own identity -- that he had literally _become the brute_."

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brutal  brutality  brute force  brutish  

aggressor  assailant  assaulter  attacker  

Beirut  Bute  Butte  Jute  Root  

barbarian  bastard  beast  beggar  coward  

Adamic  Circean  Draconian  Goth  Mafioso