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1. A cruelly rapacious person
   - beast, wolf, savage, wildcat
    
2. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement
   - animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna

1. Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
   "brute force"
   - beastly, bestial, brutish, brutal

Sounds like: brut, bruit

Derived forms: brutes

See also: inhumane

Type of: aggressor, assailant, assailer, assaulter, attacker, being, organism

Part of: animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia

Encyclopedia: Brute