Overview of noun brute

The noun brute has 2 senses

• beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat -- (a cruelly rapacious person)


• animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna -- (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Overview of adj brute

The adj brute has 1 sense

• beastly, bestial, brute, brutish, brutal -- (resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners")