Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME < MF < L brūtus heavy, devoid of feeling, irrational)
Definition of 'Brute'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat a cruelly rapacious person
2. (adj)animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
3. (adj)beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal resembling a beast; showing lack of humansensibility "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
Definition of 'Brute'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adj)Brute not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature
2. (adj)Brute not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation
3. (adj)Brute of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brutebeast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence
4. (adj)Brute having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent
5. (adj)Brute rough; uncivilized; unfeeling
6. (noun)Brute an animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast
7. (noun)Brute a brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person