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