adj rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
2. brute ·vt to report; to bruit.
3. brute ·noun a brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
4. brute ·noun an animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; ·esp. a quadruped; a beast.
5. brute ·adj not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
6. brute ·adj having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
7. brute ·adj of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. hence: brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
8. brute ·adj not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.