brute

(bro͞ot)

1. An animal; a beast.
2. A brutal, crude, or insensitive person.

1. Of or relating to beasts; animal: “None of the brute creation requires more than food and shelter” (Henry David Thoreau).
2. Characteristic of a brute, especially:
   a. Entirely physical: brute force.
   b. Lacking or showing a lack of reason or intelligence: a brute impulse.
   c. Savage; cruel: brute coercion.
   d. Unremittingly severe: was driven to steal food through brute necessity.
3. Coarse; brutish.

Related Forms:

• brutˈism noun