Definitions of brute
British English : brute If you call someone, usually a man, a brute, you mean that they are rough, violent, and insensitive. NOUNHe was an idiot and a brute and he deserved his fate.
- any animal except man; beast; lower animal (as modifier) ⇒ ■ brute nature
- any animal except man; beast; lower animal
- (as modifier) ⇒ ■ brute nature
- a brutal person
- any animal except man; beast; lower animal
- (as modifier) ⇒ ■ brute nature
- wholly instinctive or physical (esp in the phrases brute strength, brute force)
- without reason or intelligence
- coarse and grossly sensual