brute

Plural: brutes

Noun

• a cruelly rapacious person
• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
• 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, particularly one who is dim-witted.
• A kind of powerful spotlight.
• One who has not yet matriculated.

Adjective Satellite

• resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
  • "brute force"

Adj

• Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
• Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
• Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
• Crude, unpolished.
• Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
• Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.

Verb

Verb Forms: bruted, bruting, brutes

• To shape a diamond by rubbing it against another.
• To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
• Obsolete spelling of bruit.

Examples

• a brute beast
• brute violence
• He tried to brute his letters into a high-scoring word, but they simply wouldn’t fit.
• I punched him with brute force.
• 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."
• the brute earth; the brute powers of nature

Synonyms

animal, animate being, beast, beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish, creature, fauna, savage, wildcat, wolf

Anagrams of brute