An animal; a beast.
A brutal, crude, or insensitive person.
Of or relating to beasts; animal: "None of the brute creation requires more than food and shelter" (Henry David Thoreau).
Characteristic of a brute, especially:
Entirely physical: brute force.
Lacking or showing a lack of reason or intelligence: a brute impulse.
Savage; cruel: brute coercion.
Unremittingly severe: was driven to steal food through brute necessity.
Coarse; brutish.
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