brute
noun
[ bruːt ]
• a savagely violent person or animal.
• "he was a cold-blooded brute"
Similar:
savage,
beast,
monster,
animal,
sadist,
barbarian,
devil,
demon,
fiend,
ogre,
thug,
lout,
boor,
oaf,
ruffian,
yahoo,
rowdy,
bully boy,
swine,
bastard,
pig,
radge,
• an animal as opposed to a human being.
• "we, unlike dumb brutes, can reflect upon our impulses"
brute
adjective
• characterized by an absence of reasoning or intelligence.
• "a brute struggle for social superiority"
Origin:
late Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French brut(e ), from Latin brutus ‘dull, stupid’.
