1. A cruelly rapacious person
   "The dictator was a brute, showing no mercy to his opponents";
   - beast, wolf, savage, wildcat [informal]
    
2. Someone who treats others inhumanely, or is regarded as wildly violent or uncivilized
   "The gang leader was a brute";
   - animal
    
3. Any non-human animal, esp. a land-living mammal
   "The national park has a variety of fearsome brutes";
   - animal, beast, creature

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 facts were impossible to ignore";
   - blunt, crude, stark

Sounds like: brut, bruit

Derived forms: brutes

See also: inhumane, unconditional, unconditioned

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

Encyclopedia: Brute