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1. A cruelly rapacious person
   - beast, wolf, savage, wildcat [informal]
    
2. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement
   - animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna
    
3. Someone who treats others inhumanely, or is regarded as wildly violent or uncivilized
   - animal

1. Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
   "brute force";
   - beastly, bestial, brutish, brutal
    
2. Devoid of any qualifications, disguise or adornment
   "the brute truth";
   - blunt, crude, stark

Sounds like: brut, bruit

Derived forms: brutes

See also: inhumane, unconditional, unconditioned

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

Part of: animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia

Encyclopedia: Brute