a. - Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
a. - Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
a. - Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
a. - Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
a. - Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
n. - An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
n. - A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
v. t. - To report; to bruit.